How a detectorist’s unearthed Roman swords helped find Iron Age settlement - Two Roman cavalry swords found by a metal ...

Rather than suggesting that Romulus was the first person to ever build a settlement on the Palatine Hill, a variety of ancient Greek and Roman records make it clear that there was a previous ...

But on the Palatine Hill, the mythical birthplace of Rome, you can actually walk on the same stones where emperors Augustus and Nero once dwelled. "It's the place where the Caesars lived and died ...

Once Rome's sea port, potentially from as early as the 7th Century BCE, Ostia Antica developed into a bustling seaside suburb, reaching a peak of 75,000 inhabitants in the late Imperial age.

But what many people do not know is that Greek legend tells us that this was not actually the first settlement that existed on the Palatine Hill. Before Rome, there was a Greek city which existed in ...

The Palatine is honeycombed with palaces and other ancient monuments, from the 8th century B.C. remains of Rome's first fledgling huts to a medieval fortress and Renaissance villas.

The Colosseum Archaeological Park has reopened the House of Livia, a first-century BC domus on Rome's Palatine Hill, after a programme of restoration work. The ancient residence is attributed to the ...

Most of Rome’s hills are spurs of a plateau called the Esquiline Hill. On the Esquiline, in the mid-Republic, a colossal earthwork and wall was built by Roman citizens, not enslaved people ...

Massive mosaic — dating back 2,000 years — discovered in the heart of Rome. See it By Brendan Rascius December 22, 2023 4:07 PM ...

“The Palatine Hill has always been the stage of Rome’s power politics,” Giorgio Franchetti, an archaeologist and historian of ancient Rome, tells CNN ’s Silvia Marchetti.