Today, it is now a museum ... of the plaza features a massive Egyptian obelisk surrounded by fountains. Throughout Roman ...

Tourists can climb the fortress walls, amble through the winding streets and spend some time on the town’s Piazza del Popolo – but ... Corsignano into what is now Pienza (Getty) Pienza also ...

Thanks to Sixtus we can walk from the Porta del Popolo, where he placed an obelisk in the piazza, along the Via Sistina and Via delle Quattro Fontane. Our vatican scholars also tell us the Dome of St.

Here he found the inscription near to the golden pyramid-like tip that sits atop the obelisk. Now he could see that the hieroglyphs could be read horizontally, which allowed Olette-Pelletier to ...

the epigraphist identified a total of seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphics on the obelisk. His findings will soon be published in the journal ENIM. “In our written language, we can now clearly ...

In May of that year, Piazza, now 56, ended up giving a press conference, telling reporters, “I'm not gay. I'm heterosexual. I can't control what people think. I can say I'm heterosexual.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Residents of Lanao del Sur province are now benefiting from a modern dialysis center in Malabang town, serving kidney patients absolutely free. Radio reports in ...

Parents are supposed to love all of their kids equally. However, Guillermo del Toro does not love all of his cinematic offspring equally. He has a clear favorite and he isn’t afraid to speak up ...

Rome has more Egyptian obelisks than any city in Egypt, including one at Piazza del Popolo - Alexander Spatari/Getty ...

Olette-Pelletier’s discovery adds another layer to the cultural and historical significance of the Luxor Obelisk. Now, nearly 200 years after it was transported to Paris, the obelisk’s legacy ...