The Chapel of Corpus Christi in the Toledo Cathedral is also known as the Mozarabic Chapel because Cardinal Cisneros decreed ...

Being able to pass freely between Olympus, the Underworld, and the mortal realm, Hermes fulfilled an important role in Greek ...

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Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus, a work written around 200 CE about well-read people philosophizing and enjoying good food and ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Located between Bolivia and Peru, Lake Titicaca is the world’s highest navigable lake—perched at a dizzying 3,812 meters above sea level. Sacred to the Incas and still home to indigenous communities ...

Held in the ancient Roman city of Jerash every summer, the Jerash Festival of Culture and Arts is Jordan’s most famous ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Photos show the ancient Roman structure. Photo from H. Wraunek, Land NÖ via the Austrian Academy of Sciences On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to ...

The royals -- who celebrated 20 years of marriage at a state banquet in Rome on Wednesday -- attended a reading of the closing canto of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's most famous work "The ... meet ...

He continued "Our ties go back over two millennia – to those ancient Roman visitors who arrived on our ... to the highest number of animal species in Europe... Perhaps Rome’s greatest poet, Virgil, ...

King and Queen visit famous landmarks in Rome during Italy trip Charles and Camilla spent the day touring the Colosseum, as well as being given an official welcome at the Presidential Palace in Rome.