ROME, Italy (CNN)-- Officials monitoring the River Tiber in Rome fear it could break its banks as early as Friday evening after a spate of bad weather in Italy -- but do not expect major flooding.

Rome was built on seven hills, which formed the heart of the ancient city. The Vatican City, however, is located on the western side of the Tiber River and is not on any of these hills. The Seven ...

The artist would develop a distinctly Protestant imagery that replaced sacredness with utility, functioning essentially as ...

22 x 30 cm. (8.7 x 11.8 in.) View of the river Tiber in Rome towards St. Peter's Basilica and Castel Sant'Angelo. Signed with monogram and dated 1850. Oil on panel. 22×30 cm. In 1847, Thorald ...

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Finished in 315 C.E., the Arch of Constantine is one of Rome’s three surviving ancient triumphal arches, each erected to ...

Beau Solomon, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, arrived in Rome, Italy for the John Cabot University study abroad program on June 30, 2016. His body, identified by DNA, was found ...

Nestled along the banks of the Tiber River, Rome stands as a testament to centuries of history, culture, and architectural marvels. The Eternal City invites travelers on a timeless journey ...

Rome’s Cloaca Maxima sewer, which flowed into the Tiber River, became the model for urban sanitation. By the time Pliny the Elder was writing in the first century A.D., the Cloaca was already ...

And the Arcadians, as Themis advised them through inspiration, chose a hill, not far from the Tiber, which is now near the ...

Trastevere is located west of the Tiber River and south of Vatican City, far enough from the hustle and bustle of central Rome, but still close enough not to be qualified as out of the way.

The modern West traces its heritage to Greece and Rome, societies that themselves owed a debt to the cultures that preceded ...