The fragment is thought to depict the goddess Artemis - Copyright AFP ASHRAF SHAZLY The fragment is thought to depict the goddess Artemis - Copyright AFP ASHRAF ...

Wildfires have killed at least three elderly people on Italy’s southern island of Sicily as a heatwave and severe storms gripped continental Europe. The charred bodies of a couple in their 70s were ...

An archaic shipwreck that dates back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. has been discovered in the waters off the coast of Santa Maria del Focallo, municipality of Ispica, Sicily, Italy. The find also ...

ROME, March 1 (Reuters) - A giant statue dating back about 2,500 years has been restored to Sicily's Valley of the Temples, an archeological site which ancient Greek poet Pindar described as "man's ...

Italian premier Mario Monti is mulling emergency action to take direct control of Sicily’s regional government before the island spirals into a full-blown financial crisis, fearing contagion to the ...

AGRIGENTO, Sicily (AP) — For his seventh career stage win in the Giro d’Italia, Diego Ulissi beat the best in the business in a finish tailor-made for three-time world champion Peter Sagan. Helped by ...

Greece on Monday welcomed Italy's return of a marble fragment from the Parthenon, calling on the British Museum to open talks on returning those parts of the archaeological monument it still holds.