The Etruscans and Romans were fierce rivals and clashed in pivotal wars. What were the major battles that defined this ...

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what we knew about ancient medicine.

Criterion (iii): The two necropolises constitute a unique and exceptional testimony to the ancient Etruscan civilisation, the only urban type of civilisation in pre-Roman Italy. Moreover, the ...

A Danish family has returned three ancient artifacts to Italy after their father purchased them in the 1960s. The items, ...

Found beneath an older tomb near Tarquinia, the painted chamber depicts several intricate scenes, including a metallurgical workshop ...

Bloody, brutal but popular, gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization ... The practice began as an ancient Etruscan funeral ritual: when a tribal chief died ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Archaeologists in Italy recently uncovered an ancient slab that could unlock mysteries of the Etruscan culture. Here's what scientists are hoping it will tell them.

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks. In particular, the twelve ...

Old Statue of a Child Priest Discovered in a Hot Spring, Part of ‘Truly Extraordinary’ Ancient Offerings Italian ...

A 2,500-year-old tomb with vibrant red wall paintings has been unearthed at the ancient Tarquinia necropolis in Italy, the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the province ...