The famous Pantheon in Rome boasts the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome—an architectural marvel that has endured for millennia, thanks to the incredible durability of ancient Roman concrete. For decades, scientists have been trying to determine precisely what makes the material so durable.

Visiting a museum? This guide will help you identify any Roman Emperor bust or sculpture in front of you by simply looking at his beard!

The U.S. Constitution owes a huge debt to ancient Rome. The Founding Fathers were well-versed in Greek and Roman History. Leaders like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison read the historian Polybius, who laid out one of the clearest descriptions of the Roman Republic’s constitution, where representatives of various factions and social classes checked the power of the elites and the power of the mob. It’s not surprising that in the United States’ nascent years, comparisons to ancient Rome were common.

Studying the ice cores may help reconstruct fluctuations in the ancient economy. By Kiona N. Smith. (May 15, 2018)

The grave of a 'vampire child' buried more than 2,000 years ago has been excavated by stunned archaeologists who found the body had been weighed down, over fears it would rise from the dead. Evidence of a ritualistic burial was found deep underground when a team in Rome, Italy, dug up the remains of a child aged 10, which had a stone placed in its mouth.

My novel Kingdom of the Wicked — Rules took me 13 years to write. It has been a long time between drinks. Rules isn’t all of it, either. Book II, Order, comes out in March, so apologies for the cliffhanger. However, rest assured I haven’t gone all George R.R. ­Martin on you. Everything is ­written, with only final editorial to complete.

The Rome Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service are working out the details of Rome murder suspect Robert Coffin’s extradition back to Oneida County. In the meantime, officials with Mohawk Valley Crime Stoppers tell us that reward money will be paid out, possibly to more than one person – if they come forward to claim it. Officials say that many people who called in tips for this case said they didn’t want the reward money, they just wanted justice for victim Thomas Shepherd’s family.

Dozens of members of a gang, whose tentacles stretched deep inside Rome's City Hall, have been convicted of corruption after a 20-month trial in a high-security jail. At the heart of the case dubbed "Mafia Capital" was one-eyed, right-wing extremist Massimo Carminati, who was given 20 years in jail. A total of 46 people were put on trial and most were convicted of corruption. However, the judge acquitted all 46 on the key charge of mafia association.