It can be visited in the southern French city of Nimes (famous for its rich array of Roman ruins) and is one of the top Roman destinations in the country. State: Restored Built: 4-7 AD The Temple ...

Take it from a francophile, Nimes is the Roman city with a lot to offer ... The structure in front of me is the Maison Carree (Square House), a temple that was completed in 2CE and is considered ...

Erected in the 1st century CE in the Roman colony of Nemausus – today’s Nîmes in France – the Maison Carrée is an early example of a Roman temple associated with imperial worship in the provinces of ...

The vestal virgins Finally, the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the six virgins tended the sacred fire, baked sacred ...

The Roman Empire has, well, been on a lot of people’s minds during the past year. There are numerous locations on the continent for those who want to visit some locations where you can actually ...

Ancient masters of engineering, aqueduct builders created a vast network of pipes, channels, and bridges to bring water to Rome, creating in the process an enduring symbol of Roman civilization ...

The pediment from the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath is one of the best-known objects from Roman Britain. It originally looked down on people entering the temple precinct from a height of 12 metres.

Further digs are to be carried out on a Roman site in the grounds of a hotel ... site is being explored further Earlier excavation of a temple reinforced the notion of a town – Venta Icenorum ...

What that means is, a temple for the Emperor Tiberius, as part of the Imperial Cult. Thus, here we have, at Caesarea Maritima, a Roman Governor building a temple in honor of the Roman Emperor.

36, Issue. 2, p. 454. In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman west. He demonstrates how and why a temple's ...

Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of history at Saint Louis University, made a major announcement at the annual meeting of the Archeological Institute of America, revealing he and his team discovered ...

Venta Icenorum had running water, baths, a town hall and a forum, and was enclosed inside walls in the 3rd Century Further digs are to be carried out on a Roman ... of a temple reinforced the ...