CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ROME Therapeutics, a biotechnology company harnessing the power of the repeatome in drug development, today announced key appointments to its science leadership: ...

Despite extensive records of the history of Rome, little is known about the city's population over time. A new genetic history of the Eternal City reveals a dynamic population shaped in part by ...

Archaeologists, excavating Portus - the ancient port of Rome, believe they have discovered a large Roman shipyard. The team has uncovered the remains of a massive building close to the distinctive ...

Italian archaeologists have uncovered the fossilized remains of nine Neanderthals in a cave near Rome, shedding new light on how the Italian peninsula was populated and under what environmental ...

Just as modern cities struggle with lead pollution, so may have ancient Rome. And muddy waters preserved the city’s legacy of lead pipes, a new study suggests. Researchers examined lead levels in dirt ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Welcome to a new year, where fresh wonder already awaits. Rome has often ...

Parts of Ancient Rome were built on timber imported from more than 1,000 miles away in modern-day France, a new study has found. The researchers, who noted that the Romans used timber trading to build ...

Ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th Century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th Century AD. It includes the Roman Kingdom ...