It’s fitting that it was the expansion-minded ancient Romans who built Europe’s first super highway — they understood the value of good roads to growing an empire. And the Appian Way, begun in 312 BC, ...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi View of the Tomb of Piso Licinianus on the ancient Appian Way, beyond the aqueducts at Torre di Mezza Via d'Albano, c1778 to early 1800s Upcoming Giovanni Battista Piranesi ...

THE Roman Via Appia or Appian Way is the way of all flesh, all history, and all culture. Built in the year 312 B.C. as an improvement on an existing road (nature as such had not been seen in Italy ...

The Appian Way, begun in 312 BC, was the engineering wonder of its day. It connected Rome with Capua (near Naples), ignoring natural contours and running in a straight line for much of the way.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Tomb of Cecilia Metella—now known as Capo di Bove—outside the Gate of San Sebastiano, upon the ancient Appian Way, c1778 to early 1800s Upcoming Giovanni Battista Piranesi ...

A stand of trees is on a hill and there are stone ruins. The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(Jeremiah, i;1.)--'The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the ...

Just a few minutes beyond the Aurelian Walls in Rome, you’ll find an enormous green corridor where you can literally walk on ...

Like many a latter-day political bigwig, Julius Caesar prepared for greater things to come by serving as a highway commissioner. His job was to take care of the Appian Way, the great road that ...

ROME (AP) - In ancient times, chariot-racing was a favorite spectator sport along the Via Appia Antica, the old Appian Way. Today, watching joggers and bikers might be the 21st-century equivalent for ...