An inscription on a brick links the aqueduct's construction to Gaius Valerius Constans, a second-century brickmaker from ...

The Trevi Fountain, arguably the world’s most famous, has graced screens for decades, from Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” to ...

Rome’s Trevi Fountain is one of Italy’s most popular monuments, but few visitors are aware of where its water comes from.

During a recent excavation on the grounds of a mansion in Slovakia, researchers discovered something remarkable: a Roman ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Some advice for staying healthy may sound familiar. But other recommendations – such as a fig-only diet for athletes – may ...

In 1882, in an Etruscan tomb near Veii, about 16 kilometers north of Rome, a Greek pitcher—an olpe—was discovered. It had ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

ASHBOURNE, England (AP) — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside ...

And that is certainly true as Pope Francis battles double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital ... the gravity of a papal election with respect and accurately portrays the ancient rituals and ...

Archaeologists in a new discovery unearthed a “megalography” in the ruins of Pompeii that has revealed the wilder side of the ancient Romans. According to CNN, the researchers, during their ongoing ...