Over the course of my 3 different trips to the French Riviera, I’ve had the pleasure of spending quite a bit of time in Nice, ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and ...

Mangeac had found a hoard of ancient Roman coins — 1,469 silver denarii — buried in a field in Letca Nouă. He said the discovery left him in disbelief. Marius Mangeac found 1,469 coins dating ...

The 12th century B.C.E. was a period of seismic unrest across the Eastern Mediterranean and when Ramses III had overcome invasions by the Libyans and the mysterious Sea Peoples, he set about ...

The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.

The broken walls of the villa are covered in frescoes, or paintings made on wet plaster. Vilamuseu In the ruins of an ancient Roman villa in Spain, researchers have unearthed over 4,000 fragments ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, where Cardinal Baldassare Reina carried the cross on behalf of Pope ...

Unfortunately, public buses and taxis will not take you to Villa Jovis. Once you arrive, you'll have to pay 6 euros (around $6.75) to walk around the ancient Roman ruins. Tours of the site and ...

Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site — inhabited for thousands of years before it became a thriving Roman city on the crossroads between East and West in the 1st century CE. The ancient site ...

Jubilee of Hope pilgrims are undertaking two ancient church pilgrimages this week ... As one of the oldest Roman traditions for Catholics, the 15.5-mile St. Philip Neri pilgrimage was popularized ...