The marble sculpture of emperor Augustus from 1 B.C.—one of several Roman works the property has lovingly restored—is not to be missed. Tucked away on an unassuming street a few blocks from ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...

But on the Palatine Hill, the mythical birthplace of Rome, you can actually walk on the same stones where emperors Augustus and Nero ... all designed in the Baroque style favoured by the Papal ...

I would like to send Peter Navarro or some other daffy representative of the Trump administration back in time to sit down with Augustus or ... pharaohs, and emperors have built armies and ...

What is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the entire old town of Split, Croatia, Diocletian’s Palace was built for the Roman Emperor Diocletian in the ... to visit the Roman Amphitheater, Temple of ...

though Augustus had personally performed no such heroic deed. In ancient Rome, it was the Senate who voted to make an emperor a god. It is not necessary to claim honours when others are pushing to ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...