The partial collapse of the Torre di Conti has sparked a negligence probe and renewed fears about how the Eternal City protects — and fails — its ancient heritage.

“There is nothing more irresistible to an artist than an invitation to come to Italy, and Rome in particular,” Pepi Marchetti Franchi, founding director of Gagosian Rome, tells me. And she’s right.

Beginning in the Renaissance, locals affixed verses protesting various societal ills to six sculptures scattered across the Italian city Elizabeth Djinis - History Correspondent A grand tour of Rome’s ...

Exceptionally Heavy Roman Gold Ring Unearthed in Bulgaria's Ancient Bononia. Archaeologists working at the Ancient Bononia site in Vidin, Bulgaria have made a remarkable discovery ...

When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...

Throughout humanity's history, there have been lasting empires that stood for millennia, ruling vast areas of land and people ...

At Villa Adriana, built by the emperor Hadrian in the second century A.D., these column surrounded a private retreat ringed by water. Susan Wright Photography In A.D. 143 or 144, when he was in his ...