The Villa Farnesina, in Rome's Trastevere, is perhaps best known for its Raphael frescoes depicting Cupid and Psyche.

The Rome Prize, which has been awarded by the American Academy in Rome for 130 years, aims to support “innovative and ...

Explore the origins of Gothic architecture and its influence on pop culture, from churches to horror novels and movies.

Rome Prize winners. Rome Prize architecture winners are: Akima Brackeen of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory ...

This period was marked by conflict along the Danube frontier between the Roman Empire to the south and Germanic tribes to the ...

While excavating a site for the University of Gloucestershire, archaeologists discovered the remnants of two old churches and ...

Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD 450, ...

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

Archaeologists working at two separate sites in Europe have made strikingly similar discoveries beneath former department ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

Antoni Gaudí, who designed the extraordinary basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, has been declared “Venerable”. That is a step towards sainthood which recognises the heroic virtues of the ...