The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties.

Archaeologists led by University of Missouri professor Marcello Mogetta have uncovered a massive stone-lined water basin in the ancient Roman city of Gabii, just eleven miles east of Rome. Built ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome's main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church's once every quarter-century celebration that ...

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian collection, featuring sculptures that reflect Roman innovation and ambition.

While the mayors of the cities did sign a peace treaty in 1985, it was a symbolic gesture. In reality, the wars between the two ancient civilizations ended more than 2,000 years prior when Rome ...

The mental image of the city of Pompeii, crystallized by the mold of ash and lapilli that preserved its ground level for ...

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

Experts say the notorious emperor Commodus may have survived an assassination attempt inside this tunnel, which is now open ...

Rome’s famous Colosseum is allowing visitors to walk through a hidden imperial passage, following in the footsteps where ...

Visitors can walk through the “Commodus Passage,” a hidden imperial passage once reserved for Roman emperors only, at the Roman Colosseum ...

Venture along a trail where history whispers through the windswept moors and rugged cliffs. This Roman Wall offers more than ...