Despite Rome’s glorious architecture, only the richest citizens ... In truth, daily life in Rome would have been far more like that in modern day Cairo or Delhi than Paris or London.

The city of Rome was the beating heart of the Roman Empire, which spanned from ... while creatively incorporating them for modern day use.

Even as the Roman Empire fell and receded into what became the Byzantine – also known as the Eastern Roman – Empire and the world around these last remnants of Roman architecture changed and ...