When workers began excavating a new parking garage in Rome, they discovered what archeologists say was once Emperor Caligula's "pleasure gardens." Anderson Cooper reports on the find and the scholarly ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Studying the Etruscan sources, Claudius suggests that Tullius ... three surviving volumes in the cellars of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus in Rome. Tradition says the books were kept there ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

While most people are familiar with ancient capitals like Athens and Rome, the world is filled with cities that ... Colchester Castle (pictured), built on the foundations of the Temple of Claudius and ...

CC BY-SA 2.0. Rome’s first emperor commissioned this beautiful and unique circular tomb in 28 BC. According to what experts have discovered over the years, it once housed the remains of Augustus ...

In a ceremonial display representing a new era in Roman history, Augustus had the gates of the Temple of Janus closed ... was only a brief reprieve from Rome’s political struggles. The next leader of ...

27:51), the Talmud records the earthquake and the tearing in two of the Temple curtain during the time ... but throughout the city of Rome also... [Tacitus, Annals, XV 44] Even with disdain ...

Alesia is arguably the most revered location, having held the most brutal and significant battle, where Caesar’s conquest of the town was intensified by the powerful walls circulating the location to ...

Rome's Trevi Fountain has undergone renovation ... including the remains of the Temple of Claudius. Bonus: the leafy grounds are free to enter. Within the space you’ll find the Museo della ...