Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At its most powerful, one in four people across the world lived under the Roman Empire. While commoners crammed into multi-storey ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman villa complex in southern Italy on the site of a development described as ...

In what was one of the greatest decoration flexes in ancient Roman design, a wealthy resident of Iuvavum—now modern-day Salzburg, Austria—in the second or third century C.E. had a bronze replica of a ...

Most notable is a circular public bathhouse from the Ptolemaic period.

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers in south Wales have uncovered the foundations of an ancient Roman villa. The discovery illuminates the history of Roman occupation in the region, suggesting ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The remains of an ancient Roman villa measuring more than 200 feet in length have been uncovered in the United Kingdom.

As ash and lava spewed out of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., everything stopped for people in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The devastating volcanic eruption was visible to the occupants of nearby ...

View post: This Baffling List of Oscar Snubs Is Going Viral for All the Wrong Reasons Archaeologists in France have unearthed one of the largest Roman-era villas ever found in the country, the ...

Attentive travelers in Germany can find evidence of the far-flung and fearsome Roman Empire, though most of these sites offer little more than traces to spark the imagination. But in the heart of ...

Archaeologists working on the decades-long excavation of Hechingen-Stein, a Roman villa complex in southwestern Germany, have unearthed more than 100 fragments of a giant votive monument. While the ...

On view at Villa Albani Torlonia is "Eros in a chariot pulled by wild boar," a kind of super-pastiche in which only the hindquarters of one boar are ancient, along with the relief on the chariot and ...