A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri was at the opening of the new archaeological garden and museum, and walked across the map fragments – now preserved under glass – of the famous Forma Urbis Romae.

Discovered outside Rome, the bath, which is thought to be a mikvah, could be more than 1,600 years old. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Ostia Antica When Luigi Maria Caliò, a classical ...

The discovery of the ritual bath, known as a mikvah, "confirms the extent of the continuous presence, role and importance of the Jewish community in Ostia throughout the Imperial age [of Rome ...

Volcanic eruptions darkened ancient Europe’s sky. ... World Bright blue chunk found in Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material.