Turin's Museo Egizio is celebrating its bicentennial with a gallery redesign, new exhibits, and commissions from contemporary ...

The Emperor Nero sent out a Roman expedition to find the Nile's source some 2,000 years before Victorian explorers reached ...

From reds to whites and merlots to sauvignon blancs, France is wine country. The 8,000-year-old tradition took root in France ...

The box office success of “Gladiator II” is a reminder that many Americans are obsessed with the Roman Empire. They've been ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism ...

The Greek iron ages took place within this period. But since no documents are available, historians have only been able to ...

To early Christians, ancient gladiators were potent symbols of martyrdom, embodying virtue and bravery despite being enslaved.

How many of us knew that Italy, the epicenter of Roman Catholicism, hosts some of the most exquisite and beautiful Byzantine ...

DNA analysis reveals the unique genetic story of the Piceni people, a mysterious civilization that thrived in Italy before ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

A visit to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond will provide a connection between coins of the Roman and Greek period with art works of the times.

Long before the rise of Rome, the Italian peninsula teemed with several different cultures, one of the most intriguing being ...