Ancient Roman

Aphrodisias is one of the oldest sacred sites in Turkey, dedicated first to the ancient Mother Goddess and later to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.

Across the river on the north side of Autun is a ruin of a Roman temple, standing an impressive 79 ft high. Traditionally identified with the god Janus, it dates from the 1st century.

On this ancient bridge over the Tiber River in 312 CE, Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius to become the sole Roman emperor of the West.

Designed by Hadrian around 125, the Temple of Venus and Roma was the largest temple ever built in Rome and the last one to remain in use after the rise of Christianity.

Originally built as Emperor Hadrian's mausoleum in c. 128-39 CE, this impressive round structure was later used as a papal castle and prison. Today it is a museum.

A massive round building that was first a Roman temple, then a Christian church, then a mosque.

The ruins of the traditional House of St. Peter, where the New Testament says Jesus lived during his Galilee ministry, healed a paralytic and healed Peter's mother, also contain evidence of multiple Early Christian churches.

In a pretty rural landscape north of North Leigh are the foundations of a large Roman courtyard villa and a nearly complete mosaic floor.

The "white synagogue" of Capernaum dates from the 2nd to 5th centuries and is believed to stand on the site of a synagogue visited by Jesus.

These ruins of an ancient Roman complex include a theater (the oldest in France), an odeum and a temple dedicated to Cybele.

The oldest and largest circus in Rome, the Circus Maximus was built as early as the 6th century BCE to host chariot races.

Located on an strategically important site in North Africa, Carthage was an important ancient city and a center of early Christianity.