The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties.

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

The tall, adult men probably died during the battle of Mursa in 260 C.E., according to a new analysis of their remains ...

Giant statues and a section of Trajan’s Column flaunt the might and culture of the empire under the successful ruler ...

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what we knew about ancient medicine. A mosaic of Orpheus ringed by animals paves ...

Romanian man Marius Mangeac said he had no idea he would come "face to face with history" that day Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously ...

An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...

Morimasa Hibino, a 69-year-old from Japan, died after falling from the Pantheon in Rome and into a ditch on Friday, Oct. 24, according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica and CNN, which cited local ...