Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could ...

Constructed starting in 312 B.C.E. to carry troops southeast toward Capua and, eventually, the port city of Brindisi in the ...

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius froze the ancient Roman city in time, giving modern-day humans a remarkable vision into the past ...

Every now and then the internet trips over something so old it circles back to feeling brand new, and people stop scrolling.

Empire, Power, People provides a rarely seen glimpse of life in the Roman empire ...

The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is a convincing artifact indicating that, possibly unbeknownst to them, the ancient Romans used ...

The Pantheon is ancient Rome's best preserved monument. It was built as a temple to all the gods, but was converted into a ...

Sixteen centuries after the fall of Rome, traces of the ancient empire can still be found across much of Europe and Western ...

A discovery that fascinates researchers both for its uniqueness and its extraordinary state of preservation.

Archaeologists in France uncovered fragments of a 2nd-century CE life-size mural of Greek hero Achilles in a Roman home near ...

Ancient pilgrimage routes such as the Via Francigena and the Via di Francesco place Italy at the heart of slow travel, with ...