ROME, Dec 5 - The Olympic flame flared into new life under a cloudy sky in the square of Italy's presidential palace on ...

While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food than ordinary people, Italy's culture ministry said on Friday, citing ...

Croatia is home to the world's only Roman palace that people still live inside, 1700 years after it was first constructed.

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

The Sabines, a Spartan tribe, shaped the early Romans with their martial skill, social order, and lasting cultural and ...

Archaeologists working at the animal cemetery at Berenike have documented remains from three dozen primates, marking a significant shift in Roman pet-keeping practices. Previously, the handful of ...

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Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Gabii have uncovered a massive stone-lined basin that may represent one ...

From Roman ruins to rising barbarian kingdoms, the world at the end of antiquity was a strange mix of the old and the new.

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...