The city of Rome around 500 AD was both majestic and struggling, filled with ancient architecture and the remnants of empire. Discover how life looked in this fascinating era as we unveil its hidden ...

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

Even as the Western Roman Empire crumbled, the city of Rome remained full of awe-inspiring wonders. This video explores what the Eternal City looked like in 500 AD.

So what might ancient Rome have smelled like? Honestly, often pretty rank. In describing the smells of plants, author and naturalist Pliny the Elder uses words such as iucundus (agreeable), acutus ...

Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked vastly different from the ones we see in museums today. While most surviving Greco-Roman sculptural artifacts are pristinely white, thousands of years ago ...

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. What did ancient Rome smell like?