After being notified by mischievous high school students, archaeologists uncovered a large and luxurious second-century Roman ...

Biographies often explore the lives of great men and women, but how should we publish the memoir of a great building? And how might archaeologists write a narrative of that building for the public to ...

While not nearly as popular with tourists as Mount Etna, Palermo, or any of Sicily’s other picturesque seaside towns, Vizzini has a lot to offer. Inhabited since the late Bronze Age, it’s located on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At its most powerful, one in four people across the world lived under the Roman Empire. While commoners crammed into multi-storey ...

Not all ancient Roman houses are ruins. In the badlands of central Turkey, on the edge of the Syrian desert, and beneath a quiet monastery not far from the Colosseum, Roman houses are still used and ...

A rough site plan for the Roman-era village of Silchester in south-central England, now a ruin, has existed since antiquarians excavated it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though extensive, ...

A three-year project to build a children’s playground and recreation area south of the Italian city of Naples has unearthed the ruins of a 2,000-year-old clifftop beach house. Built in the first ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered an "exceptionally well-preserved" wooden ...

Despite Rome’s glorious architecture, only the richest citizens enjoyed the good life – most lived in dangerous, cramped and smelly housing. Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully ...

A population estimate considering now-decomposed wooden houses suggests that Silchester, England, may have been typical of towns across the Roman Empire, CU Boulder researcher finds A rough site plan ...