Ancient Romans once valued literature and public reading, yet over time, access to books declined dramatically. This video ...

The beginnings : the ancient Near East -- The beginnings : Greece -- The library of Alexandria -- The growth of libraries -- The beginnings : Rome -- Libraries of the Roman Empire : the city of Rome - ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

My first guide, Marco Gradozzi, who shares Roman archaeology facts through his website, Innamorati di Roma, met me in the neighborhood of Trastevere. My second cicerone, Annalisa Cignitti, an art ...