Over 2,200 years ago, the Republic of Rome founded a colony called Liternum on Italy’s west coast, just north of present-day ...

Old Jewish 'Purification' Bath Found While Digging a Roman City; 'Oldest Discovery of Its Kind in the World' Ancient ...

The military settlement was strategically located at the intersection of the Belgica Way and the Trajan Way, in Heerlen, ...

Deep beneath farmland in western Bulgaria, construction workers digging a gas pipeline uncovered something extraordinary: the ruins of a lost Roman settlement, abandoned after a devastating fire ...

The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and being abandoned. Today, Liternum Archaeological Park is on the outskirts of ...

However, as the Roman Empire declined ... Once thought to be a relatively modest town, the city’s newly uncovered ruins pointed to a vast urban center with considerable economic influence.

Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman brooch buried underneath, possibly as an offering. Photo from GUARD Archaeology Sifting through the dark ...

UNESCO inscribed the city’s ruins as a World Heritage site in 1985 ... But researchers have learned about life in Petra from Greek and Roman writings, commercial documents recorded on papyrus ...

The Roman ruins were chanced upon in 1848. Image: City of London Corporation The ruins are not to be confused with the 'Roman Bath' in Surrey Street near Temple, which is not actually Roman at all.