Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...

Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside of the Middle East, along with an oil lamp decorated with a menorah dated ...

Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the ...

British owner refuses to hand over Italian painting identified as stolen, ancient Jewish bathhouse found in Rome’s Ostia ...

Ostia Antica is noted for its excellent preservation ... Among its top must-see structures are the ancient Roman theatre and the Via di Diana, as well as the Museo Ostiense, which houses a number ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Ostia Antica When Luigi Maria Caliò, a classical archaeology professor, first brought students from the University of Catania to excavate an area of Ostia ...