When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During ...

Rome, known as the Eternal City, is a captivating blend of ancient wonders, baroque beauty and everyday Italian glamour. Like so much of Italy, Rome is a living museum—where golden light spills over ...

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

Reporter and content creator Cally Brook found magic in this coastal city that mixed Mediterranean seaside cool with urban ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a gladiator's tomb with a marble-etched inscription in an ancient Roman necropolis near Naples.

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The capital city of Italy is Rome, a city that somehow comes together by way of the natural conjunction of history, culture, ...

A new DFG project has been launched to study brick stamps in Roman Trier. Trier reached its peak in the 4th century AD, when ...