Just before coming to the mosque entrance I crossed the street, entered the Hippodrome, and walked ahead to the Obelisk of Theodosius, originally erected in Heliopolis in Egypt about 1,600 B.C. by Thutmose, who also built those now in New York, London and Rome at the Lateran.

He built the last aqueduct of ancient Rome, the 22 km long Aqua Alexandrina to supply his enlargement of the Thermae of Nero which have been renamed after the emperor ( Thermae Alexandrinae ).

He allowed a synagogue to be built in Rome, and he gave as a gift to this synagogue a scroll of the Torah known as the Severus Scroll.

Part of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti from the Monumentum Ancyranum ( Temple of Augustus and Rome ) at Ancyra, built between 25 BCE-20 BCE.

Closer to Rome, he built a navigable canal on the Tiber, leading to Portus, his new port just north of Ostia.

He built a large racetrack known as the circus of Gaius and Nero and had an Egyptian obelisk ( now known as the Vatican Obelisk ) transported by sea and erected in the middle of Rome.

In his early twenties Caravaggio moved to Rome where, during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, many huge new churches and palazzi were being built and paintings were needed to fill them.

Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

A small town was built at Empire Studios on the via Pontina outside Rome.

The first in the city of Rome was the extraordinary wooden Amphitheatre of Gaius Scribonius Curio ( built in 53 BCE ).

Arch of Gallienus in Rome, 262 – dedicated to, rather than built by, Gallienus.

In Rome, the Pantheon, originally built by Agrippa but destroyed by fire in 80, was rebuilt under Hadrian in the domed form it retains to this day.

In India, water wheels and watermills were built ; in Imperial Rome, water powered mills produced flour from grain, and were also used for sawing timber and stone ; in China, watermills were widely used since the Han Dynasty.

A church, San Giovanni a Porta Latina, dedicated to him was built near the Latin Gate ( Porta Latina ) of Rome, the traditional scene of this event.

Other luthiers who built mandolins included Rafaele Calace ( 1863 onwards ) in Naples, Luigi Embergher ( 1856 – 1943 ) in Rome and Arpino, the Ferrari family ( 1716 onwards, also originally mandolino makers ) in Rome, and De Santi ( 1834 – 1916 ) in Rome.

The area was initially fully under control of Rome and only in the mid-2nd century was built a limes south of Sala and until Volubilis.

He is said to have built one of the oldest churches in Rome, Santa Pudenziana.

During the Middle Ages, Parma became an important stage of the Via Francigena, the main road connecting Rome to Northern Europe ; several castles, hospitals and inns were built in the following centuries to host the increasing number of pilgrims who passed by Parma and Fidenza, following the Apennines via Collecchio, Berceto and the Corchia ranges before descending the Passo della Cisa into Tuscany, heading finally south toward Rome.

In Rome Gregory XIII built the magnificent Gregorian chapel in the Basilica of St. Peter, and extended the Quirinal Palace in 1580.

The name of Sixtus is often connected with a great building boom in Rome: Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill was dedicated during his pontificate and he built Santa Maria Maggiore, whose dedication to Mary the Mother of God reflected his acceptance of the Ecumenical council of Ephesus which closed in 431.

In the effort to Christianize Rome, Zachary built the original church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva over an ancient temple to Minerva near the Pantheon.

This practice, still in force at the end of the fourth century, dates apparently from the period when the great cemeterial basilicas were built in Rome, and owes its origin to the solemn commemoration services of martyrs, held at their tombs on the anniversary of their burial, as early as the third century.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

He was going to do one or two more films for cash and then chuck it all, leave Rome and its intellectual cliques and money-fed life, go back to Calabria.

Gossip had it ( for gossip is the soul of Rome ) that a famous American dancer of the time had paid for both the planes.

Then a full-time planning office will be established in Rome to work with a five-member Georgia Tech research staff for development of an area planning and industrial development program.

Peter Caroli had come to Geneva, saying that he had been a bishop of the Church of Rome and had been persecuted in Paris for his Reformed faith.

And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.

Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

* The abbot of Sant ' Anselmo di Aventino, in Rome, is styled the " abbot primate ," and is acknowledged the senior abbot for the Order of St. Benedict ( O. S. B.

" This title hails back to England's separation from the See of Rome, when King Henry, as supreme head of the newly independent church, took over all of the monasteries, mainly for their possessions, except for St. Benet, which he spared because the abbot and his monks possessed no wealth, and lived like simple beggars, disposing the incumbent Bishop of Norwich and seating the abbot in his place, thus the dual title still held to this day.

* 1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Renaissance architects included Alberti, Brunelleschi and Bramante. Many of these artists came from Florence and it remained an important centre for the Renaissance into the 16th century eventually to be overtaken by Rome and Venice.

In February he and Gratian had published an edict that all their subjects should profess the faith of the bishops of Rome and Alexandria ( i. e., the Nicene faith ), or be handed over for punishment for not doing so.

He reformed the Roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army, established the Praetorian Guard, created official police and fire-fighting services for Rome, and rebuilt much of the City during his reign.

He is alleged to have founded an institution for virgins in Rome.

The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.

The Gauls had called to Rome for military aid.

Caligula appointed an annual day each year in Rome, for people to offer funeral sacrifices to honor their late relatives.

After her thirteenth birthday in 28, Tiberius arranged for Agrippina to marry her paternal second cousin Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and ordered the marriage to be celebrated in Rome.

Alaric is most famous for his sack of Rome in 410, which marked a decisive event in the decline of the Roman Empire.