The ancient Roman kitchens of a Pompeii launderette have once again been kitted out with pots and pans as part of a new project that is trying to give visitors a sense of what day-to-day life in the city was like.
An ancient Roman bath-house and series of tombs have been unearthed during an attempt to build a new Orthodox church in a working-class suburb of Rome.
A groundbreaking study of 2,000 ancient Roman skeletons has shown how many of the ancient city's inhabitants were riddled with arthritis, suffered broken bones and were generally dead before 30.
The head of an ancient Greek statue of extraordinary artistic and historical value will finally arrive back in Italy on Friday – almost three decades after being illegally ripped from the ground.
Five frescoes stolen from a fourth century BC tomb in southern Italy have been recovered by police and put on display in Rome, allowing the public to see them for the first time ever.
The Italian government on Wednesday said police had seized more than 5,000 ancient artefacts in a record €45 million haul after dismantling a Swiss-Italian trafficking ring.
They wanted to enact a fantasy said to be very much in fashion in Pompeii: having sex in the ancient city’s red light district. But that dream was soon put to bed after the threesome – one Frenchman and two Italian women – was caught in the act.
Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered a cemetery, including tombs containing inscriptions with curses to ward off looters, in the 2,700-year-old ancient port of Rome.
Authorities in central Italy have discovered a villa transformed into a private museum, housing hundreds of Roman artefacts allegedly stolen from the state.
Ancient manuscripts in the Vatican library penned from East Asia to the Pre-Colombian Americas will be digitized
by a Japanese company as part of a global project to make the collection available for free viewing by the public.
A treasure trove of ancient bibles and rare Greek and Hebrew texts are being made available to the public through a
website set up by the Vatican and the UK's Oxford University.
