a Temple-theater complex discovered only at the beginning of the 2000s in Monte San Nicola, in Pietravairano of Caserta province. Lying at 410 meters high in the Sannio area, dates back to the late Roman Republican period, 2nd-1st century BC.

Roman arena in Arles. Built in 1st century BC. That means this thing is 2100 years old! And I felt pretty safe standing under it and on it.

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Al-Khazneh ("The Treasury") is one of the most elaborate temples in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times. As with most of the other buildings in this ancient town, including the Monastery (Arabic: Ad Deir), this structure was carved out of a sandstone rock face.The structure is believed to have been the mausoleum of the Nabatean King Aretas IV in the 1st century AD. Jordan.

The Roman Emperor Trajan, also known as Marcus Ulpius Traianus spent most of his life on military campaigns.

The Drunken Hercules - or The Urinating Hercules. 1st.century BC. or 1st.century…

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NEW YORK CITY - I don't know if "Painter at Work," the First Century CE fresco from the House of the Surgeon in Pompeii is the earliest image of a woman painting, but it's the earliest I've seen. And, like every work in "Pompeii in Color: The Life of Roman Painting," now on view at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, it's astonishing on a host of levels. That this work, and so many others, survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and the subsequent…