Archeologists conducting a dig underneath the Cressoni Theater in Como, Italy were surprised by the astounding discovery of hundreds of gold coins that date back to the late Roman imperial era in the ...

On Feb. 27, the mayor of the Italian comune of Bacoli announced the discovery of a sunken villa in Lake Fusaro. This area is less than a mile from Baiae, the ancient Roman town where aristocrats and ...

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Senior Lecturer in Roman History & Material Culture, University of Lincoln Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first ...

Both are possible. Despite being hailed as the greatest private collection of Roman antiquities in the world, the Torlonia Collection has been locked away for almost 70 years, shrouded in myth and ...

The Christian religion, which was monotheistic, ran counter to the traditional Roman religion, which was polytheistic, influenced by the ancient Greek pantheon. It was an important change after the ...

Some of the world’s oldest roadways are only memories now—but many have been preserved as historic monuments or improved to handle today’s traffic.

Egyptian artifacts are showcased at international museums across the Western world. If anyone was determined to see every ...

The artifact, still encased in the soil block in which it was found, was examined by experts at the British Museum, who with their trained eyes found it was an ancient Roman helmet. This was no ...

Ever since archaeologists first discovered the ruins of Pompeii – the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 – its stories and secrets have captivated locals, tourists ...

Zeus of Otricoli Ancient Roman copy of Hellenistic Original. credit ... It was found in the Nerva’s Forum, in Rome, and it’s now placed in the atrium of Capitoline Museums in Rome. Credit: ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...