This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that had ...

Archaeologists working at the sprawling 200-acre site of Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli have discovered a breakfast room where the Roman emperor would dine with his wife, Vibia Sabina. Now a UNESCO World ...

The "secret" journeys of Emperor Hadrian have been discovered on a white marble slab in an ancient Roman city. The white marble, found in the Ostia Antica archeological park, southwest of Rome, ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A fragment of a stone engraved with an inscription dedicated to the Roman emperor Hadrian was discovered in Jerusalem. The existence of the 2,000-year-old stone fragment, discovered ...

The Piazza D'Oro's garden courtyard view as it's been digitally restored for the project. (Virtual World Heritage Laboratory at Indiana University and the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts at Ball ...

Ancient Rome continues to fascinate us, with each new generation seeing echoes of its own hopes and fears in the rise and fall of an empire that seems simultaneously modern and alien. Only a handful ...

The monumental inscription, photographed in front of the Rockefeller Museum in Israel. (Yoli Shwartz, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority) A newly uncovered large slab of limestone with an ...

Greek archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of ancient artifacts while exploring the lost city of Tenea, which legend suggests was built some 3,000 years ago by Trojan prisoners of war. More than ...