A stretch of modern Rome’s eastern periphery has just produced an unusually rich glimpse of the city’s Republican past: a pair of rock-cut chamber tombs, a roadside shrine that may relate to Hercules, ...

From imperial residences to apartment complexes and temples, these hidden sites offer a new window into Rome's layered past.

ROME — History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on Tuesday. Accounts, ...

To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest burial underground tunnels in the world. "Hundreds of ...

In video footage, it almost looks like an earthquake. The ancient Torre dei Conti, which has occupied a street corner of central Rome since medieval times, is suddenly enveloped in billowing clouds as ...

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Archaeologists excavating Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome, have unearthed what is now considered the oldest ...

IN “CIVILIZATION and Its Discontents,” Sigmund Freud used Rome as a metaphor for memory: specifically, the way the many layers of the past exist simultaneously and come to the fore when viewed from ...