Soar over the illuminated beauty of Rome at night with this captivating drone footage. Discover the iconic Colosseum and St.

Archaeologists have unearthed a hidden ancient palace under Rome that was likely home to the Popes between the ninth and ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed ruins from a hidden ancient palace which housed popes for centuries before the Vatican was ...

The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It ...

Archaeologists uncovered walls that date back to between the 9th and 13th century, be part of the Patriarchate. The discovery ...

In Rome, excavators unearthed a weathered stone head, potentially depicting an ancient deity, beneath the Basilica of St.

He also asked that his “last earthly journey” end at the “very ancient Marian shrine ... Tiber River and St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City in Rome, Italy. It also locates St ...

Credit: AP/Markus Schreiber The basilica also has significance for ... St. Mary Major is perched on top of one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built and its bell tower is the tallest ...

He’d driven to the basilica after being discharged from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital March ... the beloved Maria Salus Populi Romani icon, an ancient Byzantine icon of Mary and the Child Jesus ...

The pontiff was interred at the basilica on Saturday ... Perched on top of one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built, Santa Maria Maggiore is one of four papal basilicas and held ...

Pope Francis will be laid to rest April 26 at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, in keeping with his final wishes. The decision breaks a 300-year tradition of papal burials at St. Peter’s Basilica in ...

From patrols on the River Tiber to surveillance drones and snipers deployed around St Peter’s Square, Rome is preparing to throw a thoroughly modern security shield around the ancient rituals of a ...