“Eighty and six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong,” said Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in A.D. 156 before climbing onto a pyre where Roman authorities would ... and fed him to wild ...

The fire started near the Circus Maximus and swiftly spread due to strong ... his disciples did not abandon his discipleship." The Roman Empire was familiar with incorporating foreign deities ...

When the modest white pick-up appears on the horizon, bouncing on the cobblestones of the Imperial Forums, hands and shouts ...

Rome has always absorbed invasions. Throughout its millennia-long history, it has consistently had a capacity stronger than ...

"Eighty and six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong," said Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in A.D. 156 before climbing onto a pyre where Roman ... in the Circus Maximus on July ...

Its once-busy port has silted up, and the Adriatic coast receded; many of its majestic Roman-era structures ... the excavated outline of the Circus Maximus, where more than 100,000 spectators ...

Marco Pastori, from the Italian northern east province of Alto Adige, South Tyrol, wears the historical costume of the XXII ...