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ANZAC Day memorial service in Rome will be online on 25 April.
The New Zealand and Australian embassies in Italy will commemorate ANZAC Day this year with a virtual memorial service from the Rome War Cemetery.
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Italy commemorates victims of the Foibe with national day of remembrance.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella has recalled the "horror" of the Foibe during a ceremony today to remember the victims of the mass killings i...
Archaeologists to dig down to ancient Roman beach buried in 79 AD.
Herculaneum, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is to begin excavating its hidden beach for the first time in 40...
Holocaust victims remembered in Italy 76 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Italy marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2021 with hundreds of memorial events in Rome, Milan and about 60 other...
Antiquarium reopens as permanent exhibition space in Pompeii.
Pompeii’s museum has been given a new lease of life after a long history of "ups and downs," announced the director of the archaeological park, Massimo Osann...
The great-grandson of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III writes a letter of apology to Italy's Jewish community.
Prince Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, heir to the defunct Italian throne, last night issued a televised apo...
Parco archeologico del Colosseo to carry out restoration work on Roman Forum landmark.
The Arch of Septimius Severus - one of ancient Rome's most recognised monuments - is to undergo a programme of conservation works in...
Pompeii will open up a newly unearthed thermopolium at Easter.
The Pompeii archaeological park has announced that it will open up a recently discovered thermopolium, a sort of ancient 'fast food' counter, with visits se...
Much of the layout of Renaissance Rome was dictated by the needs of pilgrim routes to St Peter's from all parts of the city.
By Arianna Farina
The layout of Rome in the early 15th century was still determined by its...
Well-preserved bodies found in a "truly exceptional" discovery at Pompeii.
The skeletal remains of two men, believed to be a master and his slave, have been discovered at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in volcan...
Colosseum unveils its secrets by the light of the moon.
The Colosseum opens its doors tonight, Saturday 14 November, with a virtual visit from 21.00.
The public is invited to relive the almost 2,000-year history of t...
Rome commemorates deportation of Jews in 1943.
Rome's Jewish community commemorates today the 77th anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz.
The r...
As archaeology develops new techniques, more of the Roman city of Falerii Novi is revealed, without digging an inch.
About 50 kilometres to the north of Rome lies a vast site which is encircled by an intact, ancient wal...
Canadian designer Daniel Voshart conjures up photorealistic portraits of 54 Roman emperors.
We have all seen the statues, either in books or in real life, but did you ever wonder what the Roman emperors actually looked...
Mayor of Rome says Italian capital is an "anti-Fascist city."
Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has ruled out categorically a proposal to create a museum dedicated to Fascism in the Italian capital, reports news agency ANSA....
Nemi town council says archaeological treasures were burned by Nazis.
Nemi, a small lakeside town near Rome, is demanding compensation from Germany for the destruction of the remains of two ancient Roman ships by Nazi f...
Ancient Roman monument illuminated with new lights.
Rome has illuminated the Arch of Constantine with new LED lights, replacing the old lighting system at the fourth-century landmark beside the Colosseum.
Rome's mayo...
Pompeii recreates its lost gardens, orchards and vineyards.
The Archaeological Park of Pompeii has inaugurated new "green" itineraries around the site, since it reopened after the covid-19 lockdown, offering an insight...
Discovery of perfectly preserved sarcophagus at Ostia Antica archaeological park.
An intact terracotta sarcophagus dating from the second century AD has been unearthed alongside the archaeological site of Ostia Antica,...
Unexpected opening in Piazza della Rotonda leads to important rediscovery.
Rome archaeologists have announced that a sinkhole which opened up in front of the Pantheon in recent days has brought to light the ancient impe...
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