Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

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 ...

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Rome is a city shrouded in myth yet full of potent physical reminders of many historical triumphs and tragedies. Walking the ...

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AstralShift has released the first trailer, information, and screenshots for Hell Maiden, its horde survival deckbuilder set in the world of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. It will be ...

A survey tracing the city’s greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

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(Blood and betrayal turned Rome from republic to empire.) Tourists visit the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy. Photograph by Andrea Frazzetta/National Geographic Image Collection In place of the ...

Pope Leo XIV marked his first full day as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church by celebrating Mass in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Friday with cardinals. Mass got underway as ...

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