Not all ancient Roman houses are ruins. In the badlands of central Turkey, on the edge of the Syrian desert, and beneath a quiet monastery not far from the Colosseum, Roman houses are still used and lived in today.
Online Sources for Further Reading
On the Monastery of San Gregorio Magno, see this excellent page.
The German page linked here has excellent images of the cave churches of Cappadocia.
You can read more about the wonderfully well-preserved Roman houses of the Hauran in Melchior de Vogüé’s Syrie centrale: architecture civile et religieuse du Ier au VIIe siècle (1865) (the source of the images used in this video) and Howard Crosby Butler’s volume on Architecture and Other Arts in late Roman Syria (1904).
On the Sassi of Matera, see this interesting article.
Check out the linked article on Split, Croatia to learn more about Diocletian’s Palace.