Roman Sites and Artifacts

About 2,000 years ago, the Romans ruled most of the known western world. Clearly good at conquering people, the Romans also showed an impressive talent for building cities. Every city from England to Egypt received the distinctive Roman stamp: baths, forums, arches, aqueducts, walls, roads... and, equally important, temples. The pragmatic Romans were not known for their religious sensibilities. However, a rich Roman religious tradition developed from the Romans' willingness to absorb the indigenous faiths of conquered lands. "Roman religion" is a combination of Roman state cults, Greek mythology and philosophy, mystery religions of the East, religious ideas from exotic Egypt and Persia, and the widespread techniques of magic and superstition. This category includes the Roman cities, Roman ruins, Roman museums, and Roman sites of interest that have been profiled on Sacred Destinations so far, naturally with special attention paid to Roman temples.

Roman Temples and Sites Index Roman England Bath - Roman Baths and Museum Gloucester - Roman Ruins London - Temple of Mithras Roman France Arles - Roman Amphitheater Arles - Museum of Ancient Arles Arles - Roman Theater Autun - Temple of Janus Lyon - Amphitheater of the Three Gauls Lyon - Roman Theaters Roman Germany Cologne - Roman-Germanic Museum Trier - Landischmuseum Trier - Porta Nigra Trier - Roman Basilica Roman Italy Rome - Appian Way Rome - Arch of Constantine Rome - Arch of Titus Rome - Capitoline Hill and Museum Rome - Pantheon Palermo - Regional Arcaheological Museum Spoleto Archaeological Museum Spoleto - Roman Theater Syracuse - Regional Archaeological Museum Roman North Africa Carthage Roman Middle EastApamea Baalbeck Bosra Dura Europos Jerusalem - Rockefeller Archaeological Museum Jerusalem - Wohl Archaeological Museum Palmyra Tyre Roman Turkey Antioch Ephesus Bergama - Archaeological Museum Bergama - Asklepion Bergama - Red Basilica Bergama - Zeus Altar Istanbul - Archaeological Museum Izmir - Agora Izmir - Archaeological Museum Laodicea Philadelphia Sardis Tarsus Thyatira

Roman Photo Galleries Antioch Artifacts 47 photos Antioch Mosaics 96 photos Apamea 23 photos Baalbeck 54 photos Bosra 50 photos Roman-Germanic Museum, Cologne 60 photos Dura Europos 29 photos Jerash 52 photos Palmyra 88 photos Capitoline Museum, Rome 87 photos Pantheon, Rome 85 photos

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