While not nearly as popular with tourists as Mount Etna, Palermo, or any of Sicily’s other picturesque seaside towns, Vizzini has a lot to offer. Inhabited since the late Bronze Age, it’s located on ...

Biographies often explore the lives of great men and women, but how should we publish the memoir of a great building? And how might archaeologists write a narrative of that building for the public to ...

Despite Rome’s glorious architecture, only the richest citizens enjoyed the good life – most lived in dangerous, cramped and smelly housing. Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully ...

A plan map of Silchester created with data from the Silchester Mapping Project of the Archaeology Data Service. Credit: Credit: Britannia (2023). DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X23000375 A rough site plan for ...

HERCULANEUM, Italy, Oct 24 (Reuters) - One of Italy's most beautiful ancient Roman houses, which was buried under tonnes of ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, has reopened to the public 36 ...

One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time, albeit via a live-streamed tour of its hard-to-reach underground frescoes and mosaics.

A three-year project to build a children’s playground and recreation area south of the Italian city of Naples has unearthed the ruins of a 2,000-year-old clifftop beach house. Built in the first ...

A population estimate considering now-decomposed wooden houses suggests that Silchester, England, may have been typical of towns across the Roman Empire, CU Boulder researcher finds A rough site plan ...