For the first time in history, archaeologists have mapped an entire ancient Roman city ... 31 miles north of Rome, Falerii Novi was built and occupied in 241 B.C. and abandoned in 700 A.D. Though it’s ...

was discovered during the ongoing excavation of the ancient port city of Ostia. It was the first Roman colony and an important urban center of antiquity, 16 miles from Rome. “This is an ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse ... Fragments of ancient pottery ...

During the upcoming Jubilee year, millions of Christian pilgrims will flock to the Eternal City’s innumerable holy places.

“The lesson of the Roman Forum” is that everything “is more delicate than we can imagine”. The Ancient historian Polybius, as he charts the 53 years it took for Rome to become a dominant ...

The Roman Republic was notably different from the direct democracy of the Greeks, as elected officials stood as representatives for the people in Rome, whereas in ancient Greece, individuals ...

The oldest of these houses was Roman, occupied until the third century; the second and third houses were Byzantine. (8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome.) A reconstruction of the ...

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the exhibition will feature 58 sculptures ...

Items such as writing tablets, styluses — even ancient trash — could give glimpses into the daily lives of Roman Londoners.Property ... This is the heart of Rome in London, where all the ...

Discovered outside Rome, the bath, which is thought to be ... uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have tentatively ...