The colorful material weighed over 5 pounds and was likely made to decorate an emperor’s palace, Italian officials said.

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I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008, and it only seems to be getting more crowded with tourists. Instead, go ...

As the Jubilee year draws larger crowds, pickpocket gangs are making Italy's top tourist spots increasingly unsafe.

While only one of my four children is old enough to have learned about the Romans, such was his enthusiasm for the subject ...

From the Colosseum to the Pantheon to the more than 1000 churches, Rome’s antiquity has attracted visitors for centuries. But Italy’s capital is so much more than its awe-inspiring Renaissance ...

Archaeologists excavating near the Colosseum found a rare chunk of Egyptian blue pigment dating back about 2,000 years. Photo from Simona Murrone and the Colosseum Archaeological Park Across the ...