Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient Rome that remains today is one of fabulous ...

one in four people across the world lived under the Roman Empire. While commoners crammed into multi-story insulae (tenement blocks) members of the imperial elite kept a domus (large house ...

Probably there are a number of lost catacombs, too." The oldest tunnels date back to the first century. "The Jewish community in Rome built them as cemeteries. Christian catacombs came a century ...