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Underground at Trajan’s Baths: The City Painted Before the Empire Built Over It A restoration project on one of Rome’s most layered archaeological sites brings … Read more
How a slave’s testimony uncovered the first criminal inquiry into poisoning in Roman history According to Livy, in the year 331 BC the city of … Read more
Sicily has always resisted a single historical label. The island sits between Europe and North Africa, between western and eastern Mediterranean routes, and its cities, … Read more
The praefectus urbi’s murder reopened a debate the empire had avoided for generations According to Tacitus, in the year 61 AD the city of Rome … Read more
Marketed as a Neolithic and Roman find, the site was in fact assembled with concrete and grouted stone blocks. A man in northern Italy has … Read more
Pristine Tufa Tombs Reveal Mediterranean Trade Links from 550 BCE On Wednesday, July 15, at the Pastificio Garofalo in Gragnano, in Via dei Pastai, officials … Read more
The Dromedaries of San Rossore: How World War II Wiped Out Tuscany’s Century-Old Herd For over three hundred years, the coastal pine forests of San … Read more
A guide to the lagoon city’s history, architecture, islands, and the peculiar institutions that kept it independent for over a millennium Few cities have written … Read more
The Venice Lagoon Has Become One of Europe’s Most Important Flamingo Sanctuaries For much of the twentieth century, flamingos were an exotic postcard image associated … Read more
Pompeii’s House of the Chaste Lovers Gives Up Two Working Animals A fresh round of excavation inside the House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii … Read more
How the Raeti, the Romans and the Bavarian Settlers Shaped a Territory That Still Defies Easy Categories The autonomous province of Bolzano sits at Italy’s … Read more
Forty Languages, One Peninsula: A geographic and historical guide to the twelve communities recognised under national law, from the Dolomites to Salento Italy is commonly … Read more
Constantinian Era Architecture at the Port of Rome A few centimeters beneath the topsoil of a former agricultural field near Rome, excavations have uncovered the … Read more
The Accidental Marriage of Venetian Commerce and Norwegian Survival January 1432. The edge of the world is not a cliff, but a jagged, frost-bitten tooth … Read more
Technical disruption and agricultural engineering of an improvised Venetian army In the belfry of St Mark’s Campanile, a hundred meters above the lagoon, the air … Read more