Colums frame the "peristylium," or courtyard, in the center of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, House of Vettii, in the Pompeii Archeological Park, near Naples, southern Italy, December 14, 2022.

This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome. Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what we knew ...

In 1471, Pope Sixtus IV transformed the ancient Capitoline Hill into a temple to ancient ... contains frescoes inspired by the founding stories of Rome. It also houses the original equestrian statue ...

History was never my favorite subject. Maybe because of the way the lessons revolved around egomaniac men and their wars, which still don’t interest me.But history came alive for me last mon… ...

Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led to her collection of over 130 coins. The sale of the coins was handled by New York auction house Doyle. One of the coins is a ...

In the summer of 2023, Saint Louis University historian Doug Boin, Ph.D., unearthed the foundations of a building in central Italy that could help recover a forgotten chapter of ancient Roman history.

An 18th-century French history based on classical sources records that Roman priests kept a flock of sacred chickens, which supposedly reflected the will of the gods by feeding on the grain given ...

No one knows how a priceless first century B.C. to early first century A.D. Roman bust got from Germany amid World War II to a Texas Goodwill store.

A supposed "backwater" of the Roman Empire is challenging traditional assumptions about the ancient civilization's decline, according to a research project that has lasted more than a decade.