Positioned 10 minutes' walk from the Colosseum and the Roman Forum in the animated Rione Monti — the marble and terracotta-hued district from which it takes its name, once comprising three of ...

The Colosseum is still a dominant fixture in the Roman cityscape. It was named one of the New Wonders of the World in 2007.

Google has launched Aeneas, a new tool designed to help historians contextualize and restore ancient Roman texts.

An ancient garden in Pompeii has been reconstructed with 800 antique roses and 1,200 violets near the House of the Garden of Hercules, a Roman dwelling from the third century B.C.

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

MailOnline's deputy travel editor Hayley Minn heads to Croatia and discovers a Roman amphitheatre with none of the Colosseum's crowds - and it's even more well-preserved.

Newfound rock art from ancient Egypt may shed light on the time just before the first dynasty.

Ancient Aboriginal rock art, African sites make UNESCO World Heritage list UN cultural organisation this week announces its choice of sites to be granted World Heritage status.

ANCIENT erotic art stolen from Pompeii more than 80 years ago has finally been returned, Italy’s cultural heritage police have announced. The 2,000-year-old mosaic, depicting a half-naked cou… ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than 4,000 years ago.

Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era. The trilobite fossil is only the 11 th ever found worldwide in an archaeological context, and the first linked to ...