What are a pool, a veranda, a porch, and an underground corridor leading to a living room carved from an ancient Roman cistern doing in a villa on the Appian Way? One might spontaneously answer: ...

In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the ...

Flamenco, tapas, paella and Picasso, beaches, Alhambra and La Sagrada Familia are some of one Spain is famous for. Find out ...

an ancient spring festival of purification, health, and fertility, which took place in mid-February. Some theories have linked Saint Valentine’s Day to this Roman celebration, but many experts ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

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