It remained abandoned for around 1,500 years, a lost relic of the Roman era. But a forgotten town that dates back to the days of Julius Caesar has finally been uncovered in Central Italy.

outlasted the rise and fall of the Roman Empire." "As this town was unlikely to be special, we think this may give us a better view of how other communities in Italy—and maybe across the empire ...

The team’s pottery analysis from the site, published in the edited volume Roman Urbanism in ... decline of the overall Roman empire around the time – some town members kept them in operation ...

However, whether you're singing 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' or dressing ... start out in Nazareth but need to go to Bethlehem to be counted in a Roman census. This, however, is where things ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a roofed theatre, a market and a river port at the site of a Roman town in central Italy, challenging assumptions about the Empire’s decline.