Ancient Rome

Culture
by Carol King | Thu, 12/13/2012 - 05:34
The tunnels and Mithraeum temple underneath Rome’s Terme di Caracalla (Baths of Caracalla) have reopened to the public after 10 years of restoration work.The…
Culture
by Carol King | Tue, 12/04/2012 - 04:51
Amateur treasure hunters in Britain unearthed 25,000 Roman artefacts in 2012.Armed with metal detectors, the treasure hunters in England and Wales found mostly…
Culture
by Carol King | Thu, 10/25/2012 - 09:05
The British Museum in London’s ‘Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’ exhibition brings together over 250 objects from the two Roman cities, many of which…
Lifestyle
by Carol King | Fri, 09/07/2012 - 03:47
A new BBC TV series, Treasures of Ancient Rome, takes an in-depth look at Roman art and dismisses the notion that the Ancient Romans were mere copycats.In a…
by Gabi Logan | Thu, 08/30/2012 - 22:05
To promote home-made food and community collaboration, a group of architects and artists are building public wood-burning bread ovens around Rome using…
Culture
by Gabi Logan | Tue, 07/24/2012 - 04:28
After compiling findings from the 2003 to 2009 archaeological dig under the Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles) in Pisa, scholars have published photos…
by Gabi Logan | Fri, 07/06/2012 - 01:35
In the northern Grecian port city of Thessaloniki, construction of a a new metro system unearthed a 1,800-year-old ancient Roman highway.The 70-metre-long…
Culture
by Niccolò Mineo | Thu, 01/05/2012 - 07:10
Sure Rome is an invaluable chest of mediterranean tradition and fabulous history, but you might have already spent the past holidays conquering the majestic…
by Natalie Aldern | Wed, 06/15/2011 - 05:01
Long before scientific studies declared the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet, ancient Romans dined on figs, sea urchins and dormice.The diet was…
Culture
by Natalie Aldern | Fri, 04/22/2011 - 06:21
The ongoing trash crisis in Naples has generated an increasing number of illegal dumps in the area. Police investigating an unauthorized dumping ground had a…