Concealed for decades, a huge network of chambers beneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill is to be opened up to the public, revealing ...

CNN’s Ben Wedeman was given an exclusive tour of ancient tunnels underneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill. The tunnels, which ...

Artificial intelligence has already been used to fill in gaps in ancient Roman scrolls, but a new system goes much further.

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor Nero ...

Ancient Rome wasn’t just marble columns and military triumphs it was also a world of brutal punishments, deadly politics, and ...

The Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana put a spotlight on a new design collection inspired by Catholic liturgical garb in ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used large lava stone mills (or “querns”) turned by mules or donkeys. Then there ...

For centuries, the ancient world has whispered to us through cracked marble, weathered tablets, and incomplete inscriptions, ...

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the ...

Jaime Slater, who's married to DeKnight in real life and gave the showrunner the confidence to pitch the House of Ashur ...

This may be the Italian capital’s forgotten river but many of the city’s greatest attractions are lined above its banks. A ...