For years, a rumor has circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump once claimed that Italy and the United States have ...

Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.

Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...

Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

You don’t need a time machine or a transatlantic flight to step inside ancient Rome ’s most infamous arena. Starting on ...

Ancient Rome is viewed by historians as one of the greatest civilizations ever built. Much of what Western Civilization is today can be attributed to Ancient Rome, including language, politics, ...

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?

Discovered in 1912 and closed to visitors for more than a century, Rome’s "Casa dei Grifi" will open to the public in March.

In today's episode, Kate speaks with Roman historian, Emma Southon, author of A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women, to find out more about the different ways the Ancient Romans thought about ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...