Within the rolling green hills of Tuscany, you can stroll through the historic medieval streets of the town where Italy's ...

Exactly what caused the collapse of the mighty Roman Empire has been hotly debated practically since the fall itself. Was ...

Archaeologists near Naples, Italy, have made a discovery, uncovering aRoman necropolis that adds a fresh layer to the ...

The British academic publisher, Routledge, has launched “Routledge Revivals” to re-issue some classic works that have been long out of print. Originally published in 1983, Barbarians and Romans is a ...

They had the once-thought invincible Persian Empire, the biggest and strongest empire that the ... the Persian aggression that had troubled them so much in the past. Map showing the Greek world and ...

By Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times Italy Dispatch The sale of an island ... of the Gulf of Naples was a playground for the Roman Empire’s aristocracy. “It was the Monte Carlo of its ...

Brits hoping to head south for some sunshine in April may be left disappointed as new weather maps reveal an incoming deluge of rain and even snow storms. The maps generated by WXCharts on March ...

Italy. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0 The Etruscans and Romans were fierce rivals in early Italic history. Obviously, the Romans ended up being victorious since the Mediterranean came to be ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient ... at the site until late in the Roman Empire. The Aiola region has plenty more history ...

But when the modern Italy finally took shape in 1861 ... stronghold on a hill above the port which had been fortified since Roman times. He commissioned the gifted Portuguese-Italian architect ...