Did Vesuvius bury the home of the first Roman Emperor? Excavations reveal new parts of a villa near Nola, thought to belong to Octavian Augustus
The tomb of Caecilia Metella is a landmark on the Via Appia Antica, an ancient Roman road also known as the Appian Way
The ancient Greeks used the onomatopoeic term “barbarian” (in ancient Greek: βάρβαρος, bárbaros), literally “stutterer”, to indicate the foreigner