U.S. News Insider Tip: A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill ... which was opened in A.D. 80, could then hold about 50,000 spectators. With a circumference of ...

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Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

Although their lives may have been different, they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the household ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: A normal ticket includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill ... which was opened in A.D. 80, could then hold about 50,000 spectators. With a circumference of ...

It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens.