Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of secrets, from the Vatican Museums to Ostia Antica.

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of secrets, from the Vatican Museums to Ostia Antica.

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 ...

Decorated with seashells and colored marble, the vaulted sanctuary is buried 52 feet inside the Palatine hill, the palatial center of power in imperial Rome, the archaeologists said at a news ...

The Palatine hill is covered in palaces and other ancient monuments, from the 8th Century BC remains of Rome's first buildings to a mediaeval fortress and Renaissance villas. After being closed for ...

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 city was about three feet (one meter) above the Tiber’s waterline. This was dangerously low, and the reason why the earliest settlements were on the Palatine and Capitoline Hills.

Discovered in 2018, the villa sits atop the Palatine Hill, a district in the city center — near the Roman Forum — that was once occupied by the ruling class, officials said.

“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.