Square holes in Pompeii's northern walls may be the only battlefield evidence of the polybolos, a rapid-fire dart launcher ...

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Authorities in Rome have unveiled what is believed to be the largest fresco and mosaic complex of ancient Rome ...

Rome wasn’t built in a day — and neither were its mosaics. After 2,000 years, the public can finally get a look at “the Great ...

This video argues that 476 AD was not Rome’s true ending. Under Theodoric, Roman institutions, roads, aqueducts and public life still survived. The real collapse came during Justinian’s Gothic War ...

The Tiber is at a historic low, and near Castel Sant’Angelo, the pillars of what was once a Neronian bridge, dating from the early centuries AD, have re-emerged. The ongoing drought affecting Western ...

ROME (AP) — The remains of an ancient bridge have emerged in Rome's Tiber River, near St. Peter's Basilica, as weeks with virtually no rain caused water levels to plunge. The bridge — known as Nero's ...

An unfinished 2,500-year-old Greek temple on Naxos is revealing new secrets about ancient builders, marble quarrying and ...

Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock turned out to be the wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman transport vessel off the ...

Divers have uncovered a Roman-era shipwreck that had remained untouched on the seabed off Sicily for more than 2,000 years, police on the Mediterranean island said. Italian Culture Minister Alessandro ...

Scorching temperatures and a long, dry summer have given locals and tourists alike a rare opportunity to see the remains of a 2,000-year-old bridge that once spanned the Tiber river that weaves ...