The seven Roman churches in the pilgrimage include the four papal basilicas: St. Peter’s Basilica, the Basilica of St. John ...

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...

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

(Andrew Medichini/AP) Construction in Rome, from ancient buildings to restoration ... say the stone of an old defensive wall, for new purposes, including residences; the reincorporation of ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the discovery ... slag or fragments of oven walls, indicating artisanal activities ...

Archaeologists excavating beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem s Old City have uncovered evidence of an ...

The ancient city of Rome is nothing short of mesmerizing—and ... Natural light and bright white walls create a calming backdrop for the various living spaces, including the kitchen which comes ...

Most of what scholars know about the library’s architecture comes from remains of the west hall, an elongated room almost 80 feet long, whose walls ... In ancient Greece and Rome, anybody ...

The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the ... of the Imperial Age—has had part of its surviving outer wall cleaned, and a number of subterranean passages used by gladiators ...

"It was quite a surprise to find it there a few centimeters beneath the ground." Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis, right beneath the main entrance gate to Pompeii, just uncovered a ...

A 1,600-year-old Jewish bath, also known as a mikveh, was recently uncovered in Italy – and the find is the oldest of its kind in Europe. On March 10, Italian officials announced the discovery ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...