Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula ...

Interamna Lirenas has turned out to be far more than a “backwater town” of the Roman Empire.According to a published study in ...

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors.

The Greeks built an empire before the Romans that included colonies in Sicily and southern Italy. Their culture was more advanced in many areas than that of Rome, so the Romans adopted many ...

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient mosaic underwater off the coast of Naples, Italy, that might date back to the end of the Roman Empire. The piece is made from marble.

After centuries of conquests, the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD. But what led to its downfall? The military conquests of ancient Rome, including the conquest of Italy and the Punic Wars ...