Explore the breathtaking landmarks in France, from the iconic Eiffel Tower to the majestic Mont Blanc. Embark on a journey ...

Tens of thousands of residents who have started streaming back into southern Lebanon to check on their homes are finding that ...

Over the next 12 years, it would be seen in Philadelphia, Washington and Los Angeles, attracting an audience of more than 35,000 people for a drama that purported to tell 10,000 years of Black history ...

Several decades ago, a national park was declared for some fifty square miles surrounding Troy and UNESCO declared it a World ...

Ancient athletic competitions shaped how people thought about beauty, the body, self-control, education and competition. For victorious gladiators, the outcast and the slave could paradoxically embody ...

Greek statues are admired worldwide for their extraordinary beauty, but do they truly reflect the actual appearance of the ...

From Roman graffiti to Maradona murals, a cruise is the ultimate way to experience the best of the region’s backstory ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, workshops, ...

A recent genetic study calls for a reexamination of the identities and relationships of several individuals buried and ...

Contrary to the "strength and honor" depicted in Hollywood films "Gladiator" and "Gladiator II," some ancient Romans ...

Cicero’s career was both marked and made by the constitutional crises that characterized the last decades of the Roman republic. In several of his speeches from the period, he characterized the ...

It’s a famous story in Christendom. Palestine, a vassal territory under the Roman Emperor Caesar, was obliged to pay tributes ...