Archaeologists in Naples, Italy, have shed new light on the lives of Roman gladiators after discovering a tomb for one of ...

At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an ...

The deceased were interred there in several ways, including funerary urns set within about 20 plastered niches cut into the ...

Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, a Christian basilica once stood in a Roman military colony. Thousands of years later, it was unearthed. The major discovery ...

It was the first Roman colony and an important urban center of antiquity, 16 miles from Rome. “This is an absolutely extraordinary discovery,” Alessandro D’Alessio, director of the ...

Istrian Peninsula has a rich history that stretches back over 2,000 years, starting as a Roman colony for over 650 years before becoming part of the Byzantine Empire. In the Middle Ages ...

In the future archaeologists hope to continue excavating the area so they can shed more light on life in the surrounding Roman colony at the time. “It will be possible to achieve important ...

One of the graves found in Liternum Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l'area metropolitana di Napoli Archaeological excavations in the ancient Roman colony of Liternum, ...