The prestigious Portuguese wine company formerly known as SOGEVINUS FINE WINES has officially rebranded as KOPKE ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...

Although its history dates back to the Neolithic, the Roman Empire, and Moorish rule, it was Portuguese Royalty who made it ...

“In Portugal, we have a saying if something’s old: ‘it’s more ancient than the cathedral of Braga’,” João whispers. Braga is home to the first cathedral in Portugal. Photograph by ...

June in Portugal is when the country lets its hair down. Streets fill with bunting, music drifts out of every window, and the smoky smell of grilled sardines hangs in the air long after sunset. These ...

Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins, a new contemporary art museum and 5-star hotel, to open in Lisbon.

Made fashionable in the 16th century by Portugal’s King Manuel I, the tiles are both practical (they help to keep buildings cool) and artistic, often depicting important historic events and ...

“He looked at Rome from that perspective, and now, I'm discovering it in the same way.” Apart from being ancient and obsessed with eating well, what connects the three cultures in our ...

Archaeologists working in Morocco have unearthed three separate ancient cemeteries, including one stone burial plot dating back 4,000 years, according to a study published May 13 in the journal ...

Gilded coffin lids from the Pharaonic era, gold funerary masks and what's believed to be fragments of Queen Hatshepsut's ancient temple were among the 25 items accepted in Cairo on Monday.

Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century ...