In the 2nd century CE, Romans built a mysterious structure near the Colosseum decorated with sea creatures. Nearly 2,000 years later, its mosaic offered a surprising clue that ...

Beneath the ancient soil of Romes Caelian Hill, just steps from the iconic Colosseum, archaeologists stumbled upon a stunning two-thousand-year-old secret. An excavation revealed an eight-room ...
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Archaeologists dug up the barracks of Rome’s ancient firefighters beneath the Caelian Hill

Beneath one of the seven hills of Rome, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a building that once housed the ancient ...
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This Marine-Life Mosaic Discovered Near the Colosseum Offers a Surprising Clue—Its Building May Have Housed Firefighters in Ancient Rome

At the time of the structure's construction in the second century C.E., firefighting in ancient Rome was a formalized ...

Dead trees and searing-hot benches: Rome’s multimillion-dollar cooling piazza shows the challenges of brutal heat

Piazza Risorgimento was supposed to be a green oasis for locals and tourists but CNN found withered trees, dead foliage and ...
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Piazza Navona and historic Rome rooftops

Piazza Navona is shown from above in Rome, Italy, with its long plaza layout, central fountains, obelisk, surrounding historic buildings, and nearby church dome clearly visible. The aerial view gives ...

In ancient Rome, tax fraud was punishable by death

Archaeologists in western Turkey recently discovered a detailed account of 1,600-year-old tax fraud so brazen that ancient ...