At its most powerful, one in four people across the world lived under the Roman Empire ... business and a villa out of town for pleasure, rest and agriculture. These sprawling country estates ...

A newly discovered private bathhouse in Pompeii, Italy, gives insight into the luxurious lifestyle of its ancient Roman ...

The discovery includes evidence of roads, helping form a fresh map of the ancient site ... discoveries in the country show ...

The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze ...

The Getty Villa, which is already closed to the public on Tuesdays, was “swiftly closed” to non-emergency staff after the fire started in the morning.

A Roman villa indicating a "luxury lifestyle" has been discovered by archaeologists and 60 volunteers after metal detectorists reported a number of finds in the area. It is the first time the site ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have unearthed an ancient villa from beneath volcanic ash that they believe may have been used by the first Roman emperor, Augustus (63 B.C.—A.D. 14).

Restoration work was completed on a floor mosaic in a Roman villa at the ancient city of Pompeiopolis in the Taşköprü district of Kastamonu. The mosaic, believed to date to the 4th century ...

The museum honors the arts and cultures of various classic civilizations from the ancient ... Roman country house buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Three decades after its debut the ...

The ruins of Ptolemais are in the modern-day city of Tolmeita, Libya. The country sits along the Mediterranean Sea in North ...

Archaeologists in Gloucestershire, England discovered a Roman horse changing station, ancient coins, pottery, and a rare ...

Founded by J. Paul Getty, the villa's design was inspired by ancient Roman country homes. Its Greek and Roman antiquities, which include a 2,000-year-old mummy, have been on display to the public ...