Rome’s Colosseum not only hosted gladiatorial games, but also animal hunts, mock-up naval battles, and even a few plays.

Rome is the headline act, but Italy’s Roman ruins outside Rome deliver ancient drama with fewer crowds and gentler prices. Think evocative ports, theatres and mosaics, with straightforward trains and ...

Archaeologists uncovered the 1,700-year-old ruins of a laundry facility, or fullonica, during construction work in central Rome, photos show. Photo from Italy’s Ministry of Culture Rome, Italy, is ...

Rome's Metro C subway project is advancing with the construction of a 280-foot deep retaining wall around the flagship station at Piazza Venezia. Chief engineer Andrea Sciotti estimates project ...

Italian archaeologists recently discovered an ancient Roman bathhouse submerged underwater – and it may have belonged to Rome's greatest orator. The Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park, located in ...

Nearly 60 works from the legendary Torlonia Collection, hidden for decades, showcase the splendor of ancient Rome at the ...

Archaeologists and students unearthed the 1,500-year-old ruins of huge semicircular room at a Roman bath complex in Aquileia, photos show. Photo from the University of Udine Digging into the stony ...

Divers recently photographed and researched the underwater remains of an ancient Roman villa, photos show. Photo from the Superintendence of Archaeology Fine Arts Landscape Southern Etruria A team of ...