The design of the tomb was inspired by the pyramids of Egypt, reflecting the cultural fusion present in Rome after the ...

It would have been a shocking sight in the desolate wilderness, 630 miles north of Rome itself. “The wall here was plastered and painted,” Hüssen says. “Everything was square and precise.

Hadrian’s Wall in Britain “and a host of other monuments ... in 1803 on a visit to the emperor’s villa at Tivoli near Rome. Hadrian’s Villa’s size, opulence, and design touches from ...