History
Soldier's letter reaches his family 78 years after he died on the battlefield in Russia.
A letter written by a young Italian soldier on the Russian Front during world war two has been delivered to his niece 78 years aft...
Six fragments of Roman frescoes dating from the first century AD are returned to Pompeii villas.
Pompeii's archaeological park has welcomed the return of six fresco fragments stolen from the ruins of Roman villas, recov...
Tracing some of the Pantheon's reincarnations down through the centuries.
In the quincentenary year of his death, Raphael can stake a claim as greatest artist ever.
So the Pantheon, whose interior he once, as it now...
Exploring the history of Rome's Circus Maximus by taking reverse laps back to its beginnings.
By Martin Bennett
Early morning. But for a man slowly walking his dachshund, the vast oval of grass and tawny-coloured gra...
The images that Dante created in his poem have inspired artists and scholars for centuries.
It is hard to imagine that a country as rich in history and culture as Italy could trace a great deal of its heritage back to o...
Remains of nine Neanderthals unearthed at prehistoric cave at San Felice Circeo.
Archaeologists in Italy have discovered the fossilised remains of nine Neanderthals in a prehistoric cave south of Rome, the Italian cultu...
Chance discovery made during construction works in Isernia.
A marble head of the Emperor Augustus has been unearthed in Isernia, a town in the south-central Italian region of Molise.
The archaeological discovery was...
Capitoline Museums remount index finger on ancient bronze hand of Constantine after 500 years.
Rome's colossal bronze hand of Roman emperor Constantine has had its index finger remounted after the missing fragment was s...
Rome marks Natale di Roma with a series of online events on 21 April.
Rome celebrates 2,774 years today, 21 April, in a popular birthday tradition known as Natale di Roma.
The annual celebration - known in ancient ti...
Operation Eiche, when Mussolini was rescued by the Nazis.On the 25th of July, 1943, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was arrested at Villa Savoia in Rome. Mussolini’s arrest brought an end to 21 years of Fascist...
Rome's birthday celebrations for Natale di Roma move online for the second year due to covid-19.
Rome celebrates its 2,774th birthday on 21 April 2021. Known as Natale di Roma, the annual birthday celebration is based o...
Largo Argentina site will become accessible to the general public for the first time thanks to raised paths that will allow visitors to "walk through history."
Rome's archaeological site at Largo di Torre Argentina is t...
ANZAC Day memorial service in Rome will be online on 25 April.
The New Zealand and Australian embassies in Italy will commemorate ANZAC Day this year with a virtual memorial service from the Rome War Cemetery.
The 20...
Italy commemorates victims of the Foibe with national day of remembrance.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella has recalled the "horror" of the Foibe during a ceremony today to remember the victims of the mass killings i...
Archaeologists to dig down to ancient Roman beach buried in 79 AD.
Herculaneum, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is to begin excavating its hidden beach for the first time in 40...
Holocaust victims remembered in Italy 76 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Italy marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2021 with hundreds of memorial events in Rome, Milan and about 60 other...
Antiquarium reopens as permanent exhibition space in Pompeii.
Pompeii’s museum has been given a new lease of life after a long history of "ups and downs," announced the director of the archaeological park, Massimo Osann...
The great-grandson of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III writes a letter of apology to Italy's Jewish community.
Prince Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, heir to the defunct Italian throne, last night issued a televised apo...
Parco archeologico del Colosseo to carry out restoration work on Roman Forum landmark.
The Arch of Septimius Severus - one of ancient Rome's most recognised monuments - is to undergo a programme of conservation works in...
Pompeii will open up a newly unearthed thermopolium at Easter.
The Pompeii archaeological park has announced that it will open up a recently discovered thermopolium, a sort of ancient 'fast food' counter, with visits se...
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