It has chapters on sugar, Germany, the rainbow, Cesarean births, the art of painting, and hypothetical antipodes.It also ...

Invading armies can topple a state, but republics are often undone from within—by the neglect of those sworn to their care. Rome, with its Senate, vast ...

A medieval tower near the Roman Forum has partially collapsed during renovation work, critically injuring at least one worker.

Archaeologists uncovered a rare 2nd-century marble sculpture of Sleeping Cupid in Croatia, offering new insight into the city ...

From gilded palace gates and formidable city entrances to pretty portals into sacred places, we take a look at the most ...

Archaeologists recently discovered a massive 2,000-year-old stone basin in ancient Gabii, Italy, revealing early Roman public ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman ...

It’s a country of beautiful juxtapositions: In Alentejo, both Roman and Moorish ruins still remain. In the north, the art of ...

A major influence on Abstract Expressionists like Rothko, wherein emotional evocation trumped figuration, Angelico’s great gift was his ability to convey a sense of the divine. Centuries later, his ...

Visitors to the Colosseum in Rome can now walk through a tunnel that even in Roman times was exclusively reserved for emperors ...

On Day 3 of Avalon Waterways’ Romantic Rhine sojourn on the Avalon Envision, guests got a taste of the good life as only the ...