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Travel Bites 960: Imperial Rome in Art

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Trajan’s Forum, the Circus Maximus, and Rome’s National Museum reveal the empire at its peak — monumental in scale and ambition, yet vividly human through frescoes, portraits, jewelry, and remarkably realistic sculpture.

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