For years, the existence of underground rooms beneath a secondary school in central Rome was treated more as local lore than documented history. Beneath the gymnasium of Liceo Scientifico Cavour, only ...

School administrators say the buried remains of a luxe, mid-Imperial Roman mansion were discovered accidentally (“scoperti casualmente”) in the basement of the students’ gymnasium beneath Rome’s C.

Students at a Roman high school long whispered about secret rooms beneath the gym. A locked iron door and a found key led to a stunning underground revelation. Archaeologists are now excavating what ...