The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church's central government through ...

The coup d'etat staged in the ancient Capitol of Rome on Whit Sunday 1347, which made a thirty-something orator of plebian stock effective ruler of the Imperial city ... by symbols of the saints, a ...

All of this might raise a flag over the love for ancient Rome expressed by our contemporary ... our own era of Roman-style imperial rule may be drawing closer than we think. Michelle Berenfeld ...

Pearls and gemstones were used to manufacture jewellery. With the volume and value of eastern imports at such high levels in imperial Rome, the tariffs collected were enormous. One recent estimate ...

Pearls and gemstones were used to manufacture jewellery. With the volume and value of eastern imports at such high levels in imperial Rome, the tariffs collected were enormous. One recent estimate ...

So while their in-universe story was based on imperial Rome, their look was very Legion, forever linking the two franchises in the minds of fans. He told X-Men podcast Jay and Miles X-Plain the X ...

The race began at the iconic Fori Imperiali, with Rome’s Mayor Roberto Gualtieri and Councilor for Major Events, Sports, Tourism, and Fashion, Alessandro Onorato, waving the Italian flag to signal ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Sarcophagus Lid with Reclining Couple, second half of 2nd century CE (Roman, Imperial Period, Torlonia Collection, Rome), is featured in “Myth and Marble ...

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statue-filled parks and niche museums transported me to the dawn of Christian worship in late Imperial Rome. Santo Stefano Rotondo is a mid-fifth-century church-in-the-round atop the Caelian Hill ...

Spectacle – shock and awe – is the name of the game in 2025 in Trumpian America, just as it was in imperial Rome. The action in the Forum distracted the inhabitants of Rome from the poverty ...

Nor do they all follow the same exact trajectory. Imperial Rome nicely illustrates some of these tendencies. Expansion made republican government impractical, and after the civil wars of the First ...