There is an underground swimming pool, evoking an ancient Roman thermae, with lights creating hypnotic water patterns on the ceiling, and a contemporary art museum, MUSMA, with its own underground ...

With over one million people living there, Rome was a dirty and dangerous place, with a maze of side-streets and slums ... cliff in ancient Rome. It was commonly used during the Roman Republic ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...

While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts, Brøns noticed a handful of references to sweet-smelling statues. She was intrigued, so she decided to go looking for even more mentions of scented sculptures.

The “mikveh,” used by religious Jews for ritual purification, was discovered during the ongoing excavation of the ancient port city of Ostia. It was the first Roman colony and an important ...