There are roof shapes and ratios that maximize heat retainment and energy efficiency and, interestingly, ancient Italian architects and builders seemed to know it, too.

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Renovations on a soccer field outside of Vienna, Austria, uncovered a Roman-era mass grave that held the remains of roughly ...

The Italian luxury house led by Silvia Venturini Fendi is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. With a history shaped ...

Trier developed into a major economic and political center in the Roman Empire’s northern provinces, which as a result saw extensive construction ...

A city steeped in history and once the heart of Roman Britain, today its ancient streets boast museums, independent shops, ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

(Andrew Medichini/AP) Construction in Rome, from ancient buildings to restoration ... repurposing its elements for other uses such as housing; or, given its popularity, leaving it intact.

Archaeologists excavating a necropolis in Liternum Archaeological Park in Campania, southern Italy, have uncovered two ornate funerary enclosures, one of which belonged to a gladiator and bears an ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain 'first hand' evidence about the life and death of Jesus Christ. The Annals, written by the Roman historian ...