The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

Chemical analyses revealed wine residue on both expensive goblets and common cups unearthed among the legendary city's ruins ...

Our in-the-know culinary travel guide to the best things to eat in Italy's bustling capital—plus recipes for making many of the city's iconic dishes at home.

From ancient offerings to modern coin hauls, the tradition of tossing coins into water runs deeper than you might think. Here ...

However, it was the Romans who fully embraced and refined the arch, turning it into a fundamental element of their engineering: by improving materials — especially through the development of concrete ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Art and sculpture, wine and pasta, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Vatican City and Venice are just some of what Italy is famous ...

The capital city of Italy is Rome, a city that somehow comes together by way of the natural conjunction of history, culture, ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

If Georges Bizet had written only Carmen, he would still have earned his place in classical music’s Hall of Fame, yet there ...

Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological site of an ancient Roman city.

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