You might not think this modern UK office building was anything out of the ordinary, but tucked away under its basement is an ...

A 2000-year-old 70-acre Roman Bath was completely restored in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Ephesus in Turkey.

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all classes the chance to mingle, gossip and relax. They were viewed as fundamental to Roman civilization and an obvious ...

The semicircular room stretched about 100 feet across and originally stood several stories tall with elaborate decorations.

ROME (Reuters) - A section of Ancient Roman Emperor Nero's vast underground Domus Aurea (Golden House) was reopened to the ...

This magnificent centrepiece of the Roman Baths is a pool, lined with 45 sheets of lead, and filled with hot spa water. It once stood in an enormous barrel-vaulted hall that rose to a height of 40 ...

Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient Rome ... This was a house built around an ...

Hidden beneath an unassuming office block is a surprise dating back thousands of years - and it can now be visited by the ...

Ancient Roman bath houses typically included pools of three different temperatures: hot, warm and cold. Large imperial baths, like the one in Aquileia, also housed training rooms for athletes.

Plans to refurbish a York pub which stands atop ancient Roman ruins have been lodged ... s petition claimed the changes would see a lively community hub turned into a sports bar. The petition stated: ...

People mainly lived in small villages of wooden houses with thatched roofs. The biggest city in Roman Britain was Londinium (London). Aquae Sulis (Bath) was a town famous for its baths.