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 ...

The Mars we know may appear at first glance to be a barren, dusty landscape. But evidence is abundant to suggest that Earth's ...

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

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NASA has successfully launched its newest space telescope from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The telescope reached ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of Italian divers discovered a Roman shipwreck stocked with hundreds of ancient clay jars in the warm waters off the coast of Sicily, authorities said. The ship is believed to date back to the ...

ROME, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered a second-century building with mosaics and frescoes near the Colosseum that may have been barracks used by ancient Roman firefighters, the city's ...

Ancient Rome's greatest threat to food security wasn't the weather but the challenge of getting grain to the capital, according to a new study. By comparing hundreds of years of historical records ...