A top travel destination has uncovered an ancient secret. A little-known network of subterranean passageways hidden beneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill — holding clues to a long-ago chapter of the Eternal ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

There’s a reason archaeologist Ersilia D’Ambrosio can scarcely contain her excitement as she leads the way through dimly lit passageways deep below the Capitoline Hill that was once at the heart of ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a ...

Researchers have found a "unique" collection of "cave pearls"—some of which contain archaeological artifacts—in an ancient tunnel, a study has reported. Cave pearls are a type of "speleothem"—a term ...