To find out who was right, they looked for a sign from ... There were gods for almost everything, like thunder, love, war, wisdom and even the sewer in Rome. The Romans were always trying to ...

How archaeologists found one of the oldest cities on earth How archaeologists found one of the oldest cities on earth This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome This is what a ...

BCE is the traditional date of the founding of Rome. What does archaeology reveal about when it was really founded?

From the Campidoglio’s exalted heights, ancient travelers gazed at a ... It was under Augustus that Rome first began to look like a world capital: its splendid monuments hewn from richly colored ...

They look like they came from a secondhand store ... many of the spolia churches date from centuries after the heyday of Ancient Rome, when the city’s population was plummeting.

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.