Assisted by Professor Google, I grip the wheel of our duck egg blue Fiat 500 while my husband navigates our way into downtown ...

They built them there because the land dips down before rising again to the hills ... the ancient sources. They praise some water sources; others they really panned. Focusing on Rome, which ...

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of secrets, from the Vatican Museums to Ostia Antica.

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave ...

In ancient Rome, spices came to the city from every corner of the Empire and were often so precious that they could be used ...

Climbing the Acropolis, communing with the druids at Stonehenge, or marvelling at the sprawling remains of Pompeii — ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

On a train to Rome, the American singer Marc Revere meets the Italian Rafaella. He notices that she intends to work and live at her uncle's. After he gives her a ride, it turns out that said uncle ...

With miles of winding streets, along or between the city's historic seven hills, Rome is a lot to ... The crumbling yet still magnificent Ancient Rome is at the center of the city, in part of ...