"It is a sensational finding ... something that our grandchildren will be talking about," Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli told a press conference.

A 2,000-year-old basilica has found in the center of Fano in Italy has been linked one of ancient Rome’s master builders, Vitruvius.

Crucially, the basilica at Fanum Fortunae (ancient Fano) is the only building Vitruvius explicitly references in his surviving treatise De architectura, making the identification unusually significant ...

Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered the ancient Basilica of Vitruvius in Fano, confirming a long-debated Roman structure.

Archaeologists called the building in Fano, northeast of Rome, the 'discovery of the century, with the structure matching ...

Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be a more than 2,000-year-old basilica in Fano, central Italy, aligning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Arch of Caligula at the archaeological site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in AD 79.

(CNN) — Along with its many other innovations, the Roman Empire revolutionized architecture with never-before-seen features, such as large-scale arches and dome roofs. And many of these structures ...