Photo from Simona Murrone and the Colosseum Archaeological Park Across the street from the Colosseum in Rome ... rare ancient material. Archaeologists sifted through the ruins of the Domus ...

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 ...