Roman soldier Sextus Congenius Verus was buried 1,900 years ago in Italy. So how did his grave marker end up in a backyard in ...

History was never my favorite subject -- maybe because the lessons revolved around egomaniac men and their wars, which still don't interest me. But history came alive for me last month when I saw it ...

The city of Rome is still fed by pipes and aqueducts designed over two thousand years ago. They were built during the Roman Empire to bring water from nearby mountains. Engineers ensured the supply ...

A Gallo-Roman residence first found in 1966 was recently re-examined, and archeologists found that earlier excavations had only partially uncovered what was hidden. The 43,000-square-foot residence in ...

How did an ancient Roman tombstone end up buried in a New Orleans back garden? An accidental discovery became an ...

Rug designer Luke Irwin and his family wanted to convert a barn on their newly purchased property in Wiltshire, England, into a ping-pong room. So they hired electricians to run an underground cable ...

Plans to build 203 homes on a former Army site that encompasses part of Britain's only known Roman chariot racing track have been approved. Development at the disused Army Base Repair Organisation ...

Experts believe they have found the lost Roman city of Julias, formerly the village of Bethsaida, which was the home of Jesus' apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip. Last month, archaeologists from the ...