Planning a trip to Rome is all about preparation. The Eternal City is full of history, architecture, and culture. It’s more ...

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Their limited shelf life suggests spectators ate them fresh. Walnuts, whose shells were frequently found in excavated layers, were among the most accessible nuts in ancient Rome. Romans valued ...

Founded by an ancient tribe, Verona became a Roman colony in 89 B.C.E., and you can still see traces of the ancient civilization (the city is even called "little Rome ... new life to a majestic ...

In February, Donald Robertson was crossing a Montreal street, pushing his one-year ... Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and the Stoics of ancient Rome. Philosophy, he says, became the father figure ...

"As we get older, our travels become less about partying, and more about having unique and authentic cultural experiences." ...

as the city’s rejuvenated sites use every conceivable means to bring the past to life. Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of ...

There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports – they were popular in ancient Greek and ...

BCE is the traditional date of the founding of Rome. What does archaeology reveal about when it was really founded?

a powerful Phoenician colony in modern-day Tunisia and one of ancient Rome’s most formidable enemies. Carthaginians were known as “Punic people” to the Romans, and the two civilizations ...

Had enough of the crowds? Once you’ve seen Rome, consider a day trip to these lesser known but no less beautiful towns for ...