Sitting on the top row of the ancient arena, I scan the ruins of Ostia Antica, letting my imagination take me back 2,000 years to the days when this was ancient Rome’s seaport, a thriving commercial ...

Sitting on the top row of the ancient arena, I scan the ruins of Ostia, letting my imagination take me back 2,000 years to the days when this was ancient Rome's seaport, a thriving commercial center ...

I arrived in Ostia Antica from Rome, where I’d been squinting at the grand ruins and trying to envision plutocrats in togas, grand processions of conquering generals, and tyrants with 100-foot-tall ...

It’s just a 45-minute train ride from downtown Rome, and yet most tourists don’t make the trip. Sitting on the top row of the ancient arena, I scan the ruins of Ostia, letting my imagination take me ...

Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the lulav (palm branch and symbol of the harvest festival). A rare mikveh, a Jewish ...

Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed artifacts buried deep in a well for nearly 2,000 years on the outskirts of Rome. Italy’s Ministry of Culture said the roughly 10-foot-deep well in the ancient ...

The show still goes on in ancient Ostia’s theater. Courtesy of Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door Sitting on the top row of the ancient arena, I scan the ruins of Ostia, letting my imagination ...