Naumachia

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

There’s nothing quite like a good horror story from the distant past to put a shiver down the spine. And one of Britain’s most horrifying episodes from the Roman era was revealed in Dorset in 1936 wit

On 20 March 44 BC, a violent death in Rome was about to send assembled masses into uproar – sparking pandemonium that threatened to engulf the city. The incident described by the ancient biographer Su

The seaside lido offered safe swimming for holidaymakers irrespective of the vagaries of the tide. Kathryn Ferry looks at the architecture of these remarkable creations