This lively Adriatic resort town reached a hedonistic peak in the 90s, but is going back to its illustrious roots ...

Nonetheless, as Steves wrote on his website, "For most of us, Rome is Caesar, gladiators ... Yet there was once an enormous, 103-foot statue standing outside it, the Colossus of Nero, which ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with Sotterranei di Roma, Undergrounds of Rome, a local group whose members explore ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

In 44 BC, when Caesar was assassinated, Cleopatra – a much-disliked figure in Rome, whose gold-covered statue stood in the city’s temple of Venus Genetrix – fled from Rome with her son. Just months ...

The same “Caesar”/Henry ... did stay in Rome. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature cites the “controlled frenzy” of Crashaw's 1648 poem, The Flaming Heart, celebrating St Theresa, a fitting ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling ...