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Deep in the heart of Rome, Italy, the Colosseum-also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre-was completed in 80 AD under Emperor Titus. This colossal arena once held up to 50,000 spectators who gathered to witness gladiatorial contests, public spectacles, and imperial ceremonies. Its layered architecture and ingenious underground structures made it one of the most advanced engineering feats of the ancient world.

The image reveals the hypogeum, the labyrinthine substructure beneath the arena floor, where cages, trapdoors, and pulley systems enabled dramatic appearances of beasts and gladiators. The arched corridors and stone columns reflect the precision of Roman engineering and the grandeur of imperial spectacle.

Walking through these hollow passages today

evokes a somber awe-once a stage of blood and thunder, now a silent echo chamber of fallen empires. It stands not only as a marvel of architecture but also as a reminder of the power and spectacle that shaped Roman identity.

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Roman Marble Dionysiac Herm Bust

Circa: 1st Century AD to 2nd Century AD Dimensions: 7" Height (17.5 cm) 13.75" with Marble Base Medium: Marble

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Torso of the goddess Venus Anadiomene

Graeco-Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 300 AD. Medium: Egyptian faience. Now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Inv. 163

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Roman street - Timgad, 2022

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“May Cupid’s arrows kill me if I ever stop loving you"

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Marble sculpture of Cupid stringing his bow, 2nd century, Roman Empire. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen. Capitolini Museums, Rome.

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Two beautiful details in a fresco in the Villa of Poppaea, in Pompeii.

Photos provided by official website Pompeii - Parco Archeologico, January, 2025 ( pompeiisites.org )

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Roman bronze colander from Pompeii

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Detail of sacrificial bull from fresco of Jason and Pelias, Roman, 1st century AD (no later than 79 AD) Casa di Giasone, Pompeii (IX, 5, 18-21, triclinio f) Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Salla LXIX (inv. 111436) Detail in a fresco depicting Jason and Pelias: a young man leading a bull to sacrifice. This is the moment that King Pelias, not seen here, stands on the steps of the temple and recognizes Jason by his single sandal. The bull looks shocked!

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Huge tile mosaic made in Tusculum, 3rd century AD.

Vatican Museum

Photo courtesy Kathleen Phipps

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Marble bust of Cicero, 1st century BC, Capitoline Museums, Rome

"Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system. " ― M. Tullius Cicero

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Dome of St. Peter's Basilica. Photo courtesy Andrea Gugni  (©)

Photo: Lamberto Zannotti via Wikimedia Commons

In 64 AD, during the reign of Nero, many Christians were blamed for the Great Fire of Rome. The Apostle Peter, the first Bishop of Rome, was martyred along with several faithful near the Egyptian obelisk that stood in the Circus of Nero. The obelisk had been brought from Heliopolis by order of Caligula in 37 AD and is the one that stands today in St. Peter's Square. Apostle Peter was buried on Vatican Hill, along the Via Cornelia, which branched off from the Circus. Peter's tomb was marked with a rock that Christians used to identify it; soon after, Christians built a "cella memoriae" (a small memorial shrine) on that spot being for 3 centuries one of many places of clandestine worship.

The construction of St. Peter's Basilica was ordered by Emperor Constantine the Great, who wanted it to be built in a more central and "prestigious" location rather than on Vatican hill, which is located on the opposite side of Rome's seven hills and was considered a marginal location. However, Sylvester I, Bishop of Rome, earnestly asked the Emperor to build the Basilica on the site of St. Peter's tomb and the cella memoriae.

Construction began in 326 and lasted 30 years until its completion. The Basilica was expanded in the following centuries, reaching the ancient site of the Circus of Nero.

Photo: Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons

The dome of St. Peter's was built by Michelangelo Buonarroti, who immersed in the Renaissance atmosphere, in which the art and architecture of Ancient Rome had been reborn, was inspired by the Pantheon, as well as by the sculptures, frescoes and decorations typical of the late Republica and the first two centuries of the imperial era.

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Roman marble sculpture. 3rd Century

Photos by Egisto Sani

Sallustia Barbia Orbiana was born to influential Roman Senator Seius Sallustius in the early 3rd Century AD. She was known for her beauty, which was captured in multiple works of art. This notable statue of Orbiana, represented as Venus Felix, was unearthed near the church of Santa Croce in Jerusalem. She was briefly one of the three wives of Alexander Severus, and in August 225, became an Augusta of the Roman Empire.

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Open work gold ring, Roman Egypt, 1st century AD

from The Art Institute of Chicago

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Beautiful detail in Stabian Baths, Pompeii.

Photo courtesy Carlo Raso