Many thousands of people welcomed the summer in Porto the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by ...

Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Alla Al-Marjani/Reuters/GTRES. By Antonio Ratti. April 24, 2025.

Home to sublime cuisine, boutique shopping, city beaches and plenty of wine, Porto is the superlative city break, finds Fiona McIntosh How Porto became Lisbon’s cooler – and cheaper – little ...

The city, named for the Assyrian king who built it, was founded in the 13th century B.C. Emily Garthwaite / INSTITUTE A loose stone at Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, inscribed with cuneiform.

An eruption of Mount Vesuvius (background) in A.D. 79 buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under volcanic ash and rock. The World Heritage site is now the scene of an ambitious restoration ...

Parque da Cidade do Porto, or Porto City Park, ranks as one of the largest parks in northern Portugal at more than 200 acres. It has more than 6 miles of trails for biking and walking, and it is a ...