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The Joys of Discovering the Roman Underground, From the Colosseum to What’s Beneath the Trevi Foundation
Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...
Rome is teeming with mysterious crypts filled with popes—and secrets
The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...
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Ancient Roman theater discovered beneath town hall thanks to massive earthquakes
The discovery marks one of many ancient Roman finds in Europe in recent weeks. And in March, Italian archaeologists found ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis, including one ...
Archaeologists make grim discovery after finding ancient Roman buildings
A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland took a somber turn when historians discovered a collection of infant ...
An Archaeologist Was Digging Through a Drainage Ditch—and Found a 1,600-Year-Old Roman Ring
The team dates the ring to between 200 and 410 A.D., a time when the Romans were well established in Britain. Described as ...
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A Third Roman Fortress Discovered in the Northern Sinai Peninsula
Mohamed Abdel Badie, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector, also described the discovery of an 11-meter-wide and over 100-meter-long road paved with limestone slabs, which connected the eastern gate ...
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The Triton Baths in Southeastern Rome Were Converted into a Christian Church During Late Antiquity, Discovery Reveals
In the southeastern area of the city of Rome, archaeologists excavating inside the Triton Baths, built in the 2nd century A.D. within the monumental complex of the Villa di Sette Bassi, discovered ...
Ancient cemeteries and rock art discovered on Morocco's Tangier Peninsula
A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...