Walking Ancient Rome: How to Read the Forum, the Palatine, and the Appian Way
Ancient Rome has a problem that no other ruin field on earth quite shares: it sits in the middle of a working city, and it does not explain itself. Visitors walk into the Roman Forum expecting to feel two thousand years of history and instead find a sunken field of broken columns with no obvious order, hemmed in by traffic. Twenty minutes later many of them are quietly wondering if they are missin