The Search for Ancient Rome

Many times destroyed, many times rebuilt, Rome never completely disappeared.

The famous symbols of the Eternal City - the Colosseum, the Pantheon and Trajan's Column - have survived twenty centuries of pillage and invasions.

Treasure hunters and scholars, archaeologists and artists, popes and poets adored, occupied and plundered them - and restored and embellished them as well.

This is the story of how Rome's magnificence has endured it all.