Rome News

Give STARZ's Spartacus credit. It doesn't try to rise above what it is ... a bloody show filled with sex and stylized dialogue.

Chilton understands the Beast rising from the bottomless pit as the ascent of the Roman Empire.

In this picture from Monday made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, followed by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, right, and Bishop Vittorio Lanzani, partially hidden, visits the necropolis where pagans and early Christians were buried under St.

Most visitors will know how residents of Pompeii and its neighbor Herculaneum died - in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The volcano, long thought dormant, belched out a superheated cloud of fast-moving gas and debris that incinerated residents where they stood - and preserved the towns as museums of Roman life, frozen in time.

IN THE COLUMN, "Group of 13 ganging up on Rome," there were several statements that the Coalition for the Right Road would like to correct about the U.S. 411 Connector project.