AT the height of the Roman Empire, all roads led to, and from, Rome. In Britannia alone — a province conquered in 43 AD and ...

AT the height of the Roman Empire, all roads led to, and from, Rome. In Britannia alone — a province conquered in 43 AD and held for 400 years — the Roman legions built about 8,000 miles ...

The Seven Wonders of the World are often seen as the pinnacle of human architecture and the perfect form of engineering, that ...

These are the 25 countries which are home to the most significant cultural, historical and natural sites, according to UNESCO.

Recently, a team of divers off the coast of Sicily uncovered a shipwreck dating back to around 500-400 BC, writes Historienet ... trade routes between the Roman Empire and Greece.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the arena was repurposed ... Built in the second century AD, the Proserpina Dam once supplied water to Augusta Emerita, now Mérida. Standing 12 meters high and over ...

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

Byzantine sundial-calendar reproduction in Thessaloniki Technology Museum, the original caption as per exhibit was: Portable sundial, Memphis, Roman Egypt ... during the Byzantine Empire era between ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...