An earthquake in Sisak, Croatia, forced renovations to the local city hall, and revealed a Roman-era theater in the basement ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to the discovery of an ancient Roman theater in Sisak, according to officials. The theater's orchestra was found in the basement of the town hall during renovations.

In 2016, archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old Roman gold coin in Jerusalem that featured the face of Nero, the Roman emperor. Ancient Roman coins have also been unearthed from the ruins of a ...

The theatre, found in Kent, had a nearly circular orchestra pit with a narrow stage set much further back than in traditional theatres. It would have seated 12,000 people.

The coins date back to the end of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and were found in a kind of stone urn in the Cressoni theatre basement, not far from the site of the ancient city of Novum Comum.

Nero's Theatre had never been found and was only referred to in ancient Roman texts primarily by Pliny the Elder, an ancient Roman author and philosopher. Archaeologists had been excavating deep ...

HUNDREDS of ancient Roman gold coins have been discovered on the site of an old theatre in Como in northern Italy.

The theatre, which was inaugurated in 1870 and later became a cinema before closing in 1997, was due to be demolished to allow the construction of luxury flats.

The Roman theatre in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra has been used to stage public executions by Isis (Getty) Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more. Support Now.

Islamic State group militants destroyed a landmark ancient Roman monument and parts of the theatre in Syria's historic town of Palmyra, the government and opposition monitoring groups said Friday.

The Islamic State (IS) group has used the Unesco-listed Roman theatre of Syria's ancient city of Palmyra as an execution ground for 20 men who were killed in front of a crowd, a monitor said.

AMMAN — Beit Ras, north of Irbid, is one of the Decapolis cities in Jordan and has many monumental buildings from the Roman and Byzantine times, like the Roman theatre and Atheros Church, said Rania ...