The myth that the statues of ancient ... Rome, and the idea of white classical statues was useful in the conceptualization of racial superiority. For the Nazis, this meant aligning the visual ...

The popular image many people have ... were laid on top of one another. Rome had as many as 11 aqueduct systems, the most ancient of which was the mile-long Aqua Appia, first operational in ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world ... to be fighting fit - anyone who was weak or too short was rejected. Image caption, Re-enactors with Roman shields.