As new of Pope Francis' death broke, Italians came out to their doors, onto their balconies, terraces. It seemed we all ...

Paris, women needed permission from the police to wear a tie. The history of a revolutionary accessory—from ancient Rome to the 2025 runways.

Credit: Marinella Bandini Professor Francesca Romana Stasolla of Sapienza University of Rome, who is directing ... dates back to this period. A woman prays kneeling before the Stone of Anointing ...

Rome, writes Pam Frampton, is a city that can spark your imagination, lift your spirits, awe you with its enduring presence and break your heart, all in the same day. Take the fast train from Lecce to ...

Lawyer Laura Sgrò, left, listens to Gloria Branciani during a press conference in Rome, Feb. 21, 2024. Branciani is one of ...

Metal detectorists recently unearthed millennia-old treasure in a small European village, according to the Breaza Mures ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

31. Augusta – Majestic, venerable 32. Livia – Blue, envious, or related to olive trees 33. Martina – Little Mars, or warlike ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

Photos show the ancient Roman structure. Photo from H. Wraunek, Land NÖ via the Austrian Academy of Sciences On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to ...