The city that we now know as Barcelona was initially established by the Romans in the first century B.C. They named it ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly landscapes of dead volcanoes to the “Valley of the Whales.” ...

Tacoma, Washington, a smokestack leached toxic lead into the water and air. Living nearby: three men who would become some of ...

Achziv isn’t just a a village hewn from cliffs and ancient ruins, it’s a threshold – where tide and time conspire to reveal ...

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

Explore David Chipperfield Architects' plans for the Roman Theatre restoration, enhancing culture and tourism in Brescia.

When stains had to be cleaned from a mosaic that once decorated a lavish pleasure vessel from the first century, they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed ...

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 ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece.

“We know the names of many female artists and writers, but possess the works of few.” (p. 3) ...

An ancient Roman symbol of victory in battle surfaced in a pile of rubble at Hadrian’s Wall in Vindolanda, Great Britain, to ...

What has stood out most to me in the reopening of the Frick is the extraordinary response it has elicited,” director Axel ...