Concealed for decades, a huge network of chambers beneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill is to be opened up to the public, revealing ...

Engineers believe Hadrian’s Aqueduct, which was constructed in the second century, can help the city conserve dwindling water supplies amid worsening droughts.

Archaeologists have uncovered a lavish Roman-era villa adorned with colorful frescoes and a unique fish pond in the ancient ...

Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, ...

Bulgaria was on the frontier of the Roman Empire, part of the 1,800km-long Danube Limes of forts and fortified cities. Plovdiv is the oldest continually-inhabited city in Europe; and the modern ...

Roman sewage systems and aqueducts were remarkably complex, but not built for a soft nose. Image via Wiki Commons.

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there's evidence of perfumes, incense and even deodorants.

From antiquity to modern times, the city has been rife with creatures that creep, slither, scurry and nest among its pillars and palaces ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of perfumes, incense and even deodorants.

Made from natural materials such as clay, water jug filters have been used for hundreds of years in every continent by ...

Volunteers were baffled recently when they unearthed not one but two ancient shoes at a historic British site.