When you think about Italy and ruins, your mind's eye automatically brings up scenes of the Roman Forum and the Colosseum.

Many of us have heard that the ruins of Troy are in Turkey ... Why was there such a resplendent Greek city on the far side of Italy? As it happens, the ancient Greeks had a colonial phase ...

On the edge of an ancient city in Italy sat some long-forgotten ... the best surviving examples of ancient Greek architecture anywhere.” The ruins recently uncovered by archaeologists represent ...

A SMALL village tucked away in the mountains of Southern Italy has held on to ... A stone's throw away from the Greek Orthodox church lies the ruins of an ancient amphitheatre - a throwback ...

According to a press release from the Italian Ministry of Culture, two Greek temples in the Doric style were discovered in the western area of the ancient city of Poseidonia Paestum in Italy.

With the famed ruins of Pompeii looming large in people’s imaginations, many of Italy ... known ancient sites often are overlooked. One such place is Paestum, a long-ago Greek colony situated ...

Community leaders and archeologists in central Italy recently gathered in the ... and a narrow neck typically associated with ancient Greek or Roman cultures. The jars contained wine from Greece ...

A 2,000 year old fresco depicting what might be an ancient ancestor of the Italian pizza has been found in the ruins of the city of Pompeii, Italy's Culture Ministry said on Tuesday ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Paestum found the ruins of two sacred Greek temples built atop each other, photos show. Photo from the Italian Ministry of Culture On the edge of an ...