The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...

In 79 C.E., Pompeii, some 14 miles southeast of Naples, was a luxurious resort city. By then it was part of the Roman Empire, though the area had been first settled by the Osci, a central Italian ...

Baiae was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire – the place where the rich and powerful came to carry out their illicit affairs. However, over several centuries, the city slowly sunk beneath the sea.