Just outside Rome’s center, Santa Costanza offers a rare, intact glimpse into early Christian and Roman architecture, far from the crowds of the city.

During renovations at the Gran Hotel Barcino, archaeologists found stone slabs from the public forum of the ancient Roman colony of Barcino.

If you’re looking for the best Roman ruins to visit, Spain is a cracking place to do it. The Romans ruled much of the Iberian ...

As an American who's traveled to 18 European countries, I prefer smaller destinations like Cassis, France, and Tarragona, Spain, over capital cities .

An old, flattened piece of limestone inscribed with a crisscross of grooves looks like the board for a game, but for nearly a century, no one knew how the game was played. Now, researchers have used ...

More than 800 whetstones have been discovered on a riverbank in northern England. Experts say there could be hundreds or thousands more buried at the same site, which they’re describing as a nearly ...

The unexpected discovery of a well-preserved and fortified villa in Margam Park in South Wales sheds new light on the Roman occupation there, an expert said. By Stephen Castle Reporting from London ...

With one of the largest and most significant empires in history, the Romans ruled territories across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for more than a thousand years. Their legacy lives on ...

During the Renaissance a renewed interest in classical Greek and Roman art, philosophy, and history set many scholars on the search for ancient artifacts. So too in Switzerland, a country that—though ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For once, new research on the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii ...

When the German explorer Ulrich Jasper Seetzen stumbled upon a set of ruins near the Jordanian capital of Amman in 1806, little did he know that he had just discovered one of the largest and ...