Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the famous “What have the Romans ever done for us?” scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, one ...

Lined with ruins, tombs, and hidden churches, the Appian Way is where history still breathes. We follow the first seven miles of Ancient Rome’s iconic road, from the Circus Maximus to forgotten villas ...

Fletcher’s subtitle, “A History of Imperial Expansion,” is ... which keeps the book unpredictable and entertaining. “The Roads to Rome” is primarily about the afterlife of Rome’s ...

as Catherine Fletcher reminds us in “The Roads to Rome.” Ms. Fletcher, a historian at Manchester Metropolitan University, puts road-building at the center of Rome’s imperial project.

Located near Auxerre, the grand estate once possessed an exorbitant level of wealth, with thermal baths and heated floors ...

It’s one of hundreds of sites that remain long after the Romans left Britain, and just part of the legacy of Ancient Rome. Now Bath ... Some of the roads we use today follow the same routes ...

The idea of the Ponte dei Congressi dates back to 2006. Already twenty years ago, it was understood that a structural intervention on mobility between southern Rome and Fiumicino was needed. Yes, ...