These same elites funded the construction of massive venues for racing, such as the Circus Maximus in Rome and the Hippodrome in Constantinople. Chariot racing’s popularity only grew as the ...

This ancient town boasted its own temple, baths, forum and amphitheatre. It even garnered mentions by ancient Rome’s leading literary giants, Virgil and Pliny the Elder. Despite the ancient town ...

Braving bitter cold and wind, archaeologists in Serbia surveyed the site of an ancient ... Roman city of 45,000 people with a hippodrome, fortifications, a forum, palace, temples, an amphitheatre ...

The Roman Colosseum is a giant, oval amphitheater built almost two thousand ... most of the 150-some foot building is still standing. Like many ancient Roman structures, parts of it were ...

The hippodrome site was probably the most important extramural zone as it comprised the Roman road approaching Gerasa from Philadelphia: it was here that Hadrian’s Arch was built, followed shortly ...