City-building can be an exhausting affair, once you’ve evolved beyond the initial joy of cottage windows lighting up ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

Archaeologists discovered a pre-Roman necropolis ... temporary sand and gravel bars. The archaeologists now think that the necropolis arose somewhere within a drier portion of the ancient city ...

Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the city, has been turned into a ten-mile-long archaeological park best reconnoitered by ...