Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

Rome has uncovered the four large marble maps illustrating its evolution and expansion, from its foundation to the apex of its empire, hanging on the Via dei Fori, in front of the Colosseum, which had ...

When Brooklyn was incorporated as a city in 1834, building a new city hall was high on the list of priorities.

One of Spain’s warmest cities (even in January temperatures hover around 17C) has almost all of the crowd-pleasings aspects ...

I’m starting to write this article on the day the Chinese New Year begins. That date of this celebration varies of course, because the Chinese calendar follows the lunar cycle, ...

The most watched sporting event in the United States, the Super Bowl, has striking similarities to a sport played many centuries ago and over 4,000 miles away: Harpastum. The beginnings of ...

I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008, and it only seems to be getting more crowded with tourists. Instead, go ...

There's one historical movie scene that comes to mind for me when I think about Sid Meier's Civilization 7, and it's not a ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

In Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Tim Blanning restores the ‘incorrigible Saxon’ to ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Have you also noticed it, the painful degradation of our cultural standards? How awfully elite that sounds! How ...