The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress ... frescos depicting mythological scenes Sonja Anderson The structure—also the earliest of its kind in the Asian country ...

Pompeii is located about 150 miles (241 kilometers) from Rome. The study builds upon research from 2022 when scientists sequenced the genome of a Pompeii victim for the first time and confirmed the ...

The forum was the "heart" of ancient Roman cities, serving as a hub for commercial, political, religious and social activities.

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny, and the other, ...

Forums were the heart of ancient Roman cities, serving as hubs for social activities, gatherings ... Furthermore, researchers ...

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and ...

The house is striking for the high level of wall decorations. It has been provisionally named the House of Phaedra after the ...

This has been observed in concrete from another 2,000-year-old site, the Tomb of Caecilia Metella, where cracks in the ...

Forums were the centre of ancient Roman cities and served as a place for gathering, social activities ... Researchers also ...

The largest known Roman amphitheatre was the Colosseum in Rome, capable of holding up to 50,000 spectators. Several amphitheatres, such as the Pula Arena in Croatia and the Nimes Arena in France, have ...

In 2014, workers building the restaurant on the outskirts of Rome stumbled upon an ancient Roman road. Such finds can usually halt the construction process, but in this case, "McDonald's ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed a spectacular Roman forum that they believe was used to help integrate new tribes into the ...