The new campaign mapped an orthogonal street grid - straight axes and insula-like blocks - typical of planned Roman foundations. Within that layout, the drone data traced a large rectangular forum ...

Amid Rome’s crowded streets, a Renaissance Altemps Palace offers a quiet escape.

Ancient Rome wasn’t just about gladiators and grand temples - it built one of the most advanced sanitation systems the world had ever seen. From the massive Cloaca Maxima sewer to 500 miles of ...

The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried with locals. Their descendants eventually formed new kingdoms whose legacies c ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

In the medieval period, when Arabic chroniclers recorded eclipses, they usually noted concurrent deaths of rulers. And in Europe, a solar eclipse in 1133 was so closely associated with the 1135 death ...

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

This article is the second in a series exploring Giorgia Meloni’s influence on Italy, Europe and the rest of the world ...