Thousands of years ago, crowds gathered at the Colosseum in Rome to watch gladiator battles and other grisly spectacles. Now, 21st-century visitors will get a better sense of how ancient audiences ...

ROME — Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being ...

Strollers along Beirut’s waterfront in the rapidly developing Biel area have been noticing an odd feature of the local landscape: hundreds of apparently ancient columns and capitals, piled piecemeal ...

Sometimes characterized as flashy or intimidating, Greek and Roman columns have fallen out of fashion in many areas of the U.S. However, done right, they are far from ancient history, designers say.