Ancient Rome maintains a grip on pop culture, from Hollywood blockbusters to video games. Since its establishment in 31 B.C., the Roman Empire exerted its influence throughout the Mediterranean and ...

The Giza Plateau is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It attracts millions of fans yearly. The Valley of the Kings holds royal ...

From Istanbul's Blue Mosque to Paris’s Notre Dame, religious monuments have awed and amazed the masses for thousands of ...

Headed to Rome? These are the four new (and newly renovated) hotels to book for your next trip to the Eternal City.

How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

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The Eternal City is hosting its ninth edition of “RAW – Rome Art Week” – an artistic initiative dedicated entirely to contemporary art – where over 192 structures, 619 artists and 85 curators will be ...

Rome is said to be a shadow of its former self ... yours if you drink the water from your right hand on the head of the sculpture, says some. And for an old-school Italian neighbourhood, authentic ...

GIZA, Egypt — Soaring high into the sky, paragliders are used to enjoying fascinating aerial views of some of the world's most famous ancient landmarks. But the landmarks don't usually have dogs ...

For example, one estimate is that one third of the Roman empire’s entire revenue was generated by taxes on trade with ancient India. Historian William Dalrymple’s latest book — The Golden ...