Alan H's photos with the keyword: roman empire

Pavement mosaic. In the National Museum of Rome, Palazzo Massimo.

In the Roman Forum in Rome. It was probably a temple for Romulus, the son of emperor Maxentius and it retains its original doors.

View of the Arch of Septimius Severus from below.

Dedication at the bottom of the obelisk in the Piazza di Montecitorio in Rome. IMP CAES DIVI F AVGVSTVS PONTIFEX MAXIMUS IMP XII COS XI TRIB POT XIV AEGVPTO IN POTESTATEM POPVLI ROMANI REDACTA SOLI DONVM DEDIT (Imperator, Caesar, son of the deified Julius, Augustus, chief priest, proclaimed imperator for the twelfth time, consul for the eleventh time, holding tribunician power for the fourteenth time, having subdued Egypt to the power of the Roman people, gave this gift to the sun).

Roman Forum, Rome.

Erected in 113AD to celebrate Emperor Trajan's victories in Dacia (modern day Romania). The 30m column is decorated with a spiral frieze carved with events from that war. Rome, April 2006.

Looking toward the temple of Julius Caesar. The temple of Antoninus and Faustina is on the left, the temple of Romulus behind.

Marks inscribed on the steps of the Basilica Julia in the Roman Forum. It may have been used for some sort of game?

The Senate House (Curia) in the Roman Forum. There were a number of Senate Houses built on this site and this one was built in the late 3rd century by the emperor Diocletian.