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 ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited in Chicago, Fort Worth and Montreal Sonja Anderson Found in the ...

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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.

Archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery under an office block in London: the remains of the city's first Roman basilica ... of an official from the ancient city.

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 ...