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Ancient Roman buildings and structures in Rome
- Ulpian LibraryThe Bibliotheca Ulpia, known as the Ulpian Library, stood in the Forum of Trajan in ancient Rome. It is the only Roman library known to have survived until…
- Solarium AugustiThe Solarium Augusti stands as one of ancient Rome's most ambitious acts of monumental theatre. In 10 BCE, the emperor Augustus consecrated a towering…
- Ludus MagnusThe Ludus Magnus once had a name few people use today: the Domus Vectiliana, sometimes simply called the Great Gladiatorial Training School.
- Trajan's MarketTrajan's Market stands today on the Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome, a complex of ancient ruins that has outlasted empires, convents, and barracks.
- Ostia AnticaOstia Antica sits 25 km southwest of Rome, where the Tiber once met the sea. Today the coastline has shifted; the ruins now lie 3 km from the water, buried…
- Altar of Domitius AhenobarbusThe Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus sits today split between two cities, with one portion in the Louvre and another in Munich's Glyptothek.
- Atrium LibertatisThe year 212 BC marked the first recorded mention of a structure called Atrium Libertatis in ancient Rome. Livy wrote that hostages were kept within its…
- Circus MaximusThe Circus Maximus once held more than 150,000 people in a single valley between Rome's Aventine and Palatine hills. At 621 meters long and 118 meters wide…
- RegiaThe Regia stood at the edge of the Roman Forum, on a triangular patch of ground squeezed between three temples, and for centuries it held a secret.
- Pantheon, RomeThe Pantheon in Rome has been standing for nearly two thousand years, and its concrete dome is still the largest of its kind anywhere on earth.