Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Seth Sherwood, who is based in Paris, has been writing about Italy for the Travel section since 2008. “Roma si trasforma.” Translation: “Rome is transforming.” Trumpeted from signs all ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

The fan favourite city-building series takes a welcome step back in time to second century Rome, as Anno 117 puts you in control of ancient Britain.

The remarkable 1500-year-old Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona is widely viewed as the world’s oldest continuously operating ...

The concept of “virtual unwrapping” first gained attention when this imaging method was used on the En-Gedi Scroll, an ...

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

she took the half-hour walk from her lodging in Rome to the Vatican, joining tens of thousands waiting to see who was next to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. There she saw the first-ever ...

When workers began excavating a new parking garage in Rome, they discovered what archeologists say was once Emperor Caligula's "pleasure gardens." Anderson Cooper reports on the find and the scholarly ...

Ahead of a May tour of the Middle East, US President Donald Trump revived a long-running dispute over the name of the body of ...

Pierpaolo Piccioli is the new creative director of the house, and he wants nothing less than to change the image of fashion.

Bath and Bristol couldn’t be more different, but they complement each other delightfully. It’s a no-brainer to visit both.