An Ancient Burial Ground Has Been Preserved Under an Alpine City for More than 2,000 Years
Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.
I've been a tour guide in Italy for 17 years. My top recommendation is an incredible ancient port city that's way less crowded than Rome.
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 to nearby Ostia Antica.
Massive 2,500-year-old burial ground unearthed in Italian Alps. See its treasures
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Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?
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Pompeii is the gift that keeps giving – and there are so many more treasures to come
Laundries in ancient Italy famously used urine as their key active cleaning ingredient – and this was a decent-sized laundry with a massive washing tub at its centre. It was smelly hard work ...
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Italian Cultural Chief Disputes Attribution of Famed Getty Bronze, Rankling Locals
For years, legal wrangling has seen Italy and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles battle over the ownership of an ancient Greek statue. Now, one of Italy’s leading cultural officials is ...