Unbeknownst to a group of researchers digging near a small Italian town, a Christian basilica once stood in a Roman military colony. Thousands of years later, it was unearthed. The major discovery ...

Though the colony of Interamna Lirenas in central Italy once served as a key Roman bulwark, its fortunes, according to contemporaneous accounts, declined in the years following the Second Punic ...

It was the first Roman colony and an important urban center of antiquity, 16 miles from Rome. “This is an absolutely extraordinary discovery,” Alessandro D’Alessio, director of the ...