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An ancient Greek altar for family worship dating back more than 2,000 years has been found in the archaeological site of Segesta on the Italian island of Sicily, local authorities said on Friday. Sicily's regional government said the altar was probably in use at the height of Hellenic cultural influence, just before the rise of the Roman empire in...

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An ancient marble bust has been found at the bottom of Italy’s Lake Nemi. Archeologists suggest the object may have once lived on a ship built by the Roman Emperor Caligula two millennia ago. The stone head was discovered during a routine dredging of the volcanic lake overseen by the Municipal Civil Protection of Nemi, and has since been handed ove...

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Deep below the bustling city streets of Naples, Italy, researchers used futuristic sounding technology to reveal an ancient Greek tomb that archaeologists for years knew existed but have been unable to access, according to Live Science. The area currently known as Naples was first called Cumae, the first ancient Greek colony in Italy. Around 650 BC...

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One of Italy's most remarkable archaeological finds in decades goes on show this month - Etruscan and Roman statues pulled from the mud in Tuscany thanks in part to the intuition of a retired garbage man. About two dozen bronze statues from the third century BC to the first century AD, extracted from the ruins of an ancient spa, will go on display...

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An ancient Nabataean temple with marble altars has been found in the gulf of Pozzuoli outside Naples in the Italian region of Campania. A statement from the Italian ministry of culture says: “The two marble altars of the Roman period, datable to the first half of the first century AD, are inserted inside the great Temple of the Nabataeans, now subm...

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Excavations in southern Italy have unearthed terracotta bull heads and a figurine of the Greek god Eros riding a dolphin. The discoveries shine new light on the religious life and rituals of an ancient city, Italian culture ministry officials said. It is the first trove of artefacts identified from a sanctuary in the ancient Greek city of Paestum,...

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About 2,000 years ago, during the Roman empire, Pozzuoli was a bustling, commercial city equipped with a port that facilitated international trade. The city ultimately declined with the fall of the Roman empire at the end of the fifth century, according to Britannica. Since then, parts of the once-thriving cosmopolitan center have been overtaken by...

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While excavating a villa used by ancient Roman emperors in Italy, archaeologists uncovered something unexpected: two mosaics that depict the Greek mythological figure Medusa, whose hair was made of snakes and whose gaze was said could turn people into stone.   The team found the mosaics in a circular room in the Villa of the Antonines, so called be...

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A team of Italian and American archaeologists have discovered at a southern Iraq site what is believed to have been a sort of refrigerator used for keeping food cool and conserving it in ancient Sumeria 5,000 years ago. The discovery of the 'tavern' was made at the site of the capital of one of the most important Mesopotamian city states, ancient L...

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