Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of secrets, from the Vatican Museums to Ostia Antica.

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The Roman Forum comprises much of the Ancient Rome's most important structures, from shrines to government houses to monuments. Although much of the complex is in ruins, you can see the remains ...

The booty changed the landscape of Rome. To commemorate the victory, Trajan commissioned a forum that included a spacious plaza surrounded by colonnades, two libraries, a grand civic space known ...

The combination of the structure and artifacts means that "it is probable that this was a Jewish community center," Riccardo Di Segni, chief rabbi of the Jewish Community of Rome, said in the ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...

If there’s one word that defines Rome in 2025, it’s Jubilee — or Giubileo, if you’re speaking Italian. The once-every-25-years event began on 24 December 2024, with Pope Francis opening ...

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