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At its greatest extent, the Roman Empire encompassed a vast area from modern-day Portugal in the west to modern-day Iraq and the Caucasus Mountains to the east, from Egypt to its south all the way to England to its North. This expansive area was connected through an extensive roadway system. But if this was made in ancient times and was heavily use...

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Rome's Fiumicino airport, known officially as Leonardo da Vinci, has been rated Best Airport in Europe with more than 40 million passengers, for the sixth year in a row. The recognition is awarded by Airports Council International (ACI), the international association that interviews passengers to measure perceived quality in more than 350 airports...

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It will be the Historical Museum of Communication in Rome that will become the world's first museum space close to zero energy consumption. The ambitious project is by artist Geo Florenti, who presented his "Hybrid Museum" in Rome during World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development.Inaugurated in 1982, the Museo Storico della Comunicazione is...

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It has become fashionable to compare the United States’ current disarray to that of ancient Rome. The parallels are easy to make — both are powerful empires, nominally operating by the rule of the people, with hefty engineering and military might to back up their conquest. Harder to appreciate is the fact that what we imagine as “Rome” is often jus...

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Just like us, our ancestors, the Ancient Romans, liked to follow trends. After the conquest of Egypt, in 31 BC, it became popular – at least among the wealthy – to get buried … in pyramids. We know that, at some stage, there were at least 13 pyramidal tombs in the Eternal City.  Are you familiar with the twin churches of Santa Maria dei Miracoli an...

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Medicine in Rome was at once incredibly different and incredibly close to what it is today. Different, of course, because of what 2,000 years of discoveries and research gave us; but similar, because some of our ancestors’ intuitions – which they, to be fair, largely inherited from the Greeks and the Egyptians – are the same upon which modern medic...

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You probably don't know who Emperor Aurelian is, but you should. He was one of the most important figures in Roman History, and he deserves to be remembered. Aurelian was born in the town of Sirmium in what is now Serbia in 214 AD. He was drafted into the army at a young age and quickly rose through the ranks, eventually becoming the cavalry comman...

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There’s a moment near the beginning of William Wyler’s Roman Holiday (1953) when, after a lavish ceremony at the ambassador’s residence in Rome, young Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) decides to escape from her royal duties and hides in the back of a delivery truck as it heads off into the heart of the Eternal City. Squashed between jostling crates...

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Margherita Cassano has made history in Italy after she was elected the supreme court’s president on Wednesday. Cassano, the former president of the Florence court of appeal, replaces Pietro Curzio, who retiring. She had been Curzio’s deputy. Cassano’s appointment comes on the heels of Premier Giorgia Meloni becoming Italy’s first woman head of gove...

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Boom of walkers in 2022, +26% compared to last year. There were 4,203 walkers from 57 nations who reached the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi alone, in groups or in the company of their four-legged friends. Data collected by the Statio Peregrinorum, an office of the Basilica of St. Francis, show that the majority of pilgrims, who arrived in Assis...

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