Pope Francis recalled how the city of Rome 'since its birth some 2,800 years ago has had a clear and continuing vocation of universality.' Pope Francis gazes over the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum ...

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 ...

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 ...

How the Capitoline came to be — and how it managed to beat the Louvre by more than half a century — is a question being asked and answered by UC Santa Barbara’s Carole Paul. She recently received a ...

She suckled Rome's legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini's ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories. For centuries, the she-wolf has been one of Rome's most powerful symbols. But now ...

Pope Francis gazed over the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum during a visit to Rome’s historic Capitoline Hill on Monday in which he reflected on how the “Rome of the Caesars’” transformed into the ...