In 552 AD, the Eastern Roman Empire launched a final offensive to retake Italy from the Ostrogoths. Led by the general Narses ...

The Lazio Region of Rome and the Ministry of Culture of collaborating on a multi-year restoration of Villa Silvestri Rivaldi.

Beginning in the Renaissance, locals affixed verses protesting various societal ills to six sculptures scattered across the Italian city Elizabeth Djinis - History Correspondent A grand tour of Rome’s ...

“There is nothing more irresistible to an artist than an invitation to come to Italy, and Rome in particular,” Pepi Marchetti Franchi, founding director of Gagosian Rome, tells me. And she’s right.

Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of the early fifth-century Roman Empire. Doors were slammed in immigrants’ faces when they asked for food, ...

When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...

Was the collapse of the Roman empire in the west a series of gradual adjustments or a catastrophic event that brought violent change? In September 476 AD, the last Roman emperor of the west, Romulus ...

Under the direction of Marcello Mogetta from the University of Missouri, a team of archaeologists has discovered a large ...

Rick Steves says these 5 underrated movies are a must before a visit to Rome to better understand the people and places that ...

Archaeologists working at the Ancient Bononia site in Vidin, Bulgaria have made a remarkable discovery that offers fresh insight into Roman marriage customs. A substantial gold ring weighing 23.63 ...