ROME - Italian authorities said on Friday (Dec 12) they had arrested 34 "tomb raiders" suspected of looting treasures from ...

The concrete of ancient Rome was notoriously strong. Many of the buildings, bridges, and aqueducts built by the Romans still ...

Fresh excavations in Pompeii have turned a buried construction workshop into a working laboratory, revealing how Roman ...

On the market for $26 million, Villa d'Autore on the Via Appia Antica was once owned by the Italian cinema icon and her ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

Authoritarian regimes use architecture to reshape what the public believes by saturating public spaces with political symbols ...

European travel expert Rick Steves says tourists should visit this rather macabre attraction found in Italy that houses ...

Much of human history has been influenced and shaped by warfare. Warfare itself predates history, with the squabbles and fights […] ...

From ancient Rome to medieval Spain to Renaissance Venice, generations of mariners have relied on biscotti as a source of ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...

Discover the role of Julius Caesar in Starz's new historical epic, Spartacus: House of Ashur, as the series recaptures the ...