While the tombs and the shrine were found within the modern city's boundaries, they would have been situated outside the ...

The tablets were thrown in a well to obscure what was written on them, but scholars painstakingly deciphered ancient ...

A stretch of modern Rome’s eastern periphery has just produced an unusually rich glimpse of the city’s Republican past: a pair of rock-cut chamber tombs, a roadside shrine that may relate to Hercules, ...

Archaeologists are doing excavation work along the A66 ahead of plans to widen the road.

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the Archaeology, ...

A 2,000-year-old basilica has found in the center of Fano in Italy has been linked one of ancient Rome’s master builders, ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the discovery highlights the prevalence of ritual sacrifice in antiquity. The excavation ...

The discovery reveals some astounding hidden history.

ANCIENT Romans used human poo to treat common ailments, archaeologists have revealed. The grim discovery is the first direct evidence that the ancient civilisation really was keeping human faeces ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Science (Inrap) have discovered a large ...

"It is a sensational finding ... something that our grandchildren will be talking about," Italian Culture Minister Alessandro ...

A large part of the interior of 120 or more boxes of plaster fragments have been enticed home into readable pictures at In Roman Southwark. The task begins where most archaeology leaves it, not where ...