While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...
Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate tomb monuments — located near the location of the ancient settlement of ...
A 2,000-year-old gladiator tomb has been discovered in a necropolis outside of Naples, Italy. Archaeologists excavating the ...
Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...
Buried beneath a quiet Italian town, a 2,000-year-old necropolis has revealed the rare tomb of a Roman gladiator.
Archaeologists in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a ...
VIENNA (AP) — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...
The deceased were interred there in several ways, including funerary urns set within about 20 plastered niches cut into the ...
At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an ...
Archaeologists uncovered a Roman gladiator’s tomb in ancient Liternum shedding light on burial customs and daily life in ...
The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and ...
The find is still being analyzed and offers a glimpse into the role of gladiators in ancient Roman society. Another style of burial found at Liternum. Photo from the Superintendence of Archaeology ...