The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath ... was discovered during the ongoing excavation of the ancient port city of Ostia. It was the first Roman colony and an important urban center of ...

Surveying the melancholy ruins “while the bare-footed fryars were singing Vespers,” he was then and there inspired to write his monumental history, The Declineand Fall of the Roman Empire.

Baalbek, in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, was known as Heliopolis in Roman times, and includes various ruins from that era ... ranging from columns to a triumphal arch to humble dwellings. Ostia Antica, ...

About 40 minutes outside of Rome, Ostia Antica was a thriving port city during the Roman Empire, and the ruins you can see there are just as incredible, if not more so, than what you see at the ...

The winner of the 2025 Giro d'Italia will again be crowned in the shadows of the Colosseum and Roman ruins, with the sprinters ... Tyrrhenian coast at Lido di Ostia followed by eight laps of ...

where shopkeepers lived above their stores in a layout that echoes today’s urban life This gentle two-hour stroll through Ostia Antica feels like stepping into a living Roman neighborhood, far from ...

The dean always has the titular office of the bishop of Ostia, the diocese located at the mouth of ... In ancient Rome the senate met in the Curia, which can still be seen among the ruins of the Roman ...

Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the damp soil of the southwestern United Kingdom, archaeologists slowly unearthed an ancient Roman settlement. The ruins seemed “typical” at fir ...

Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the damp soil of the southwestern United Kingdom, archaeologists slowly unearthed an ancient Roman settlement. The ruins seemed “typical” at first — but ...

and although it was abandoned by AD 450, the influence and some remnants of the ancient city still remain. Join Pott’s as he explores how modern London rose up from Roman ruins.

After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and ...