Rome is eternal, but most visitors rush through it as if it were temporary, a checklist of landmarks to conquer rather than a ...

Like so many other aspects of daily life in the ancient world, love in ancient Rome was both strikingly familiar and deeply ...

Across ancient civilizations, law often carried a strangeness that feels almost unbelievable today. Weird rules shaped the intimate details of daily life, like what people could eat and wear, or even ...

A newly revealed secret passage beneath the Colosseum lets visitors step into spaces once reserved only for emperors. Here's how you can see it.

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the ...

In an ancient monastery behind huge medieval battlements in a hilltop town just south of Rome, 10 monks are striving to keep alive a 1,600-year-old spiritual tradition against increasing odds.