In 328 BC, Rome founded the colony of Fregellae in southern Latium (Italy), at a strategic crossroads of roads and rivers.

An academic article published in 2025 in the prestigious journal Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne by researcher Jorge Barbero Barroso, from the Autonomous University of Madrid, sheds a fascinating and ...

The life of Gaius Cornelius Gallus (ca. 70–27 BCE) shows what happened to politicians in ancient Rome who fell out of favor with the ruler ...

Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being brought ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

ROME (AP) — Rome opened two subway stations on Tuesday — one deep beneath the Colosseum — that mix the modernity of high-tech transport with artifacts from an ancient era. Commuters and tourists ...

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging for the stations. By Elisabetta Povoledo Elisabetta Povoledo, who has ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. By Franz Lidz The apostle Paul traveled widely across the Roman Empire to spread the ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Gabii have uncovered a massive stone-lined basin that may represent one of Rome’s earliest monumental civic structures. Its central placement hints ...

The cultural and scientific revolutions that define the Renaissance were kickstarted in large part by Europe’s rediscovery of lost Roman sculpture. Inspiring the likes of Raphael, Donatello, ...

Researchers created a digital dataset to map roads that would throughout the Roman Empire around 150 C.E. By piecing together historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery, the research ...

Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...