Presidential libraries in the United States today follow the same principle: They become monuments to the former presidents, ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

From the Magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America comes the jaw-dropping chronicle of an Egyptian temple, once ...

Production designer Craig Lathrop had plenty of time to consider ideas inspired by a gothic era. But that doesn't mean the forces of time — and nature — helped him along.

The Roman Forum was the center of life in Ancient ... Much of it can be viewed from the road, should you not have the time to visit. Trajan’s Column stands proudly above central Rome and Trajan ...

That inspired Lathrop to reference one of his favorite architectural creations, the Roman Arch of Trajan. The carving around the column depicts the Romans defeating the Dacians. “I was looking ...

A tetrastyle structure (with four columns in front ... In A.D. 106, the emperor Trajan annexed the Nabataean territories, and the area became known as the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.

In a new blog on papyrology, Roman historian Anna Dolganov discusses ... papyrus about the size of an A4 page, containing three columns of Greek text written in tiny letters.

The Trajan's Column is a Roman triumphal column erected in Rome in 113 AD by emperor Trajan. Most likely constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus it was part of the ...