ROME — For centuries, historians and architecture critics have been embarrassed by buildings like San Giorgio in Velabro. The exterior of the medieval church is inoffensive enough: trim portico, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2011, archaeologists uncovered a masonry wall and other remains at the site off Manton Lane in Bedford [Albion Archaeology] ...
The ruins at Narbonne stand on the spot where Rome first planted its architectural and cultural flag beyond the Italian Alps.
Rome (CNN) — Rome, as it’s often said, wasn’t built in a day. And nowhere is that more evident than its state-of-the-art Metro Line C, an ambitious project meant to help relieve the Italian capital’s ...
The Colosseum, inaugurated in A.D. 80, seated 50,000 and hosted gladiatorial games, ritual animal hunts, parades and executions. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images The Romans started making concrete ...
Volunteer archaeologists are set to return to the remains of a Roman settlement after making the most significant discovery of their 15-year project. Ancient items such as roof tiles, pottery and ...