In Rome’s case, all roads led to one place ... Ms. Fletcher’s subtitle, “A History of Imperial Expansion,” is inexcusably misleading. The book is in part a breezy history of Europe ...

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 ...

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 ...

The action was also one of the most sweeping adaptations to circumstance in the Church’s long history ... If all roads no longer led to Rome, Pius was yet eager that the roads that did lead ...

The answer, it seems, is the same in Holland’s book as it was in the movie — “sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads ... history of Ancient Rome, is not ...

Just as artists are attracted to history, Rome’s contemporary art ... and then came the deluge of galleries. “All roads lead to Rome and people are always coming to Rome,” says Isabella ...

For the first time in history prelates flew to Rome to receive the red hat. The air travelers from the U.S.: New York’s Francis J. Spellman, Detroit’s Edward Mooney, Chicago’s Samuel Stritch ...