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

Underwater archaeologists found a Roman breakwater made from recycled architectural fragments off the coast of Bacoli 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 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 ...

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 ...

ROME — Italian authorities on Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring and said the find will “rewrite history”… ...

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.