As they worked, the team uncovered a smaller rectangular room with a wide set of steps leading down to a well. Archaeologists ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...

Photo from Ostia Antica Archaeological Park On the outskirts of Rome, Italy, sit the ruins of Ostia Antica. The ancient port city isn’t as well-known as the nearby Colosseum or Roman Forum ...

It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome ... processions entered Rome through a gate in the city wall, the porta triumphalis.

From the Garden of Ninfa to the Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, here are some top places to visit in and around Italy's ...

Now, snorkelers can swim among its remarkably preserved ruins, where statues, temples, and everyday objects whisper tales of ...

Centro Storico's dark history and haunting legends take center stage during thrilling nighttime ghost tours. These tours ...

Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman artifact. The small item — possibly buried as an offering 1,800 years ago ...

Workers were hardly surprised when they stumbled upon ancient ruins in the Italian town of ... and the modern city is strewn with monuments from that period. What the workers found that spring ...