Concealed for decades, a huge network of chambers beneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill is to be opened up to the public, revealing ...

Artificial intelligence has already been used to fill in gaps in ancient Roman scrolls, but a new system goes much further.

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

Ancient Rome wasn’t just marble columns and military triumphs it was also a world of brutal punishments, deadly politics, and ...

A software model from Google DeepMind put a more precise date on an important Latin text credited to a Roman emperor as a demonstration of its capabilities.

Two thousand years ago, the Roman Army embarked on a far-flung hunt for silver. A new discovery reveals how close they came ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used large lava stone mills (or “querns”) turned by mules or donkeys. Then there ...

Though I took steps to avoid tourists when I visited the Colosseum, I found it was too crowded to enjoy Rome's iconic ...

This may be the Italian capital’s forgotten river but many of the city’s greatest attractions are lined above its banks. A ...

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the ...

From antiquity to modern times, the city has been rife with creatures that creep, slither, scurry and nest among its pillars and palaces ...

The Gordon Parks exhibit “Homeward to the Prairie I Come” is on display at the Wichita Art Museum through Sunday, July 27.