Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...

In the ruins of Rome’s opulent Domus Aurea palace ... skillfully decorated the rooms of this precious and refined imperial palace.” Unlike ocher and realgar, which occur naturally, Egyptian ...

was shocked by how little survived from Imperial Rome. Surveying the melancholy ruins “while the bare-footed fryars were singing Vespers,” he was then and there inspired to write his ...

including the imperial palace on Rome’s Palatine Hill, Hadrian’s vast villa at Tivoli and even the underwater ruins of Claudius’s pleasure palace on the Bay of Naples, Mary gives us her ...