Rome and Ostia to this day are pockmarked with remnants of Jewish heritage: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first-century ...

More crowds than usual are expected this year in the Eternal City. We explain what the Jubilee is, how to navigate the crowds ...

As they worked, the team uncovered a smaller rectangular room with a wide set of steps leading down to a well. Archaeologists identified it as an ancient Jewish ritual bath, known as a mikveh, dating ...

Authorities are seeking the public's help in finding individuals who desecrated ancient, protected tribal rock carvings near ...

A unique ancient Jewish bathhouse or mikveh has been found at Rome's ancient port of Ostia Antica. Culture Minister ...

It provides a deeper understanding of the social dynamics, engineering innovations, and cultural practices of ancient Rome.

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries ...

It's described as one of the earliest forms of soccer with one ancient rule telling players not to murder each other.

The origin of the Huns in fourth-century Europe has long been debated, but centuries-old DNA has revealed their diverse backgrounds.

Now a popular tourist destination along the Adriatic coast, Rimini—or Ariminum in ancient times—had been a major Roman town for centuries, and the modern city is strewn with monuments from ...

The yellowed and sometimes barely legible pages of 16 th-century texts speak of disaster after disaster—from the Black Death to locust invasions to a period of intense climate change that ...

Senior Lecturer in Roman History & Material Culture, University of Lincoln Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first ...