Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

From a film noir tango to a diabolical conga to a gaucho-inspired mass, the Santa Fe Symphony presents "Music of Latin America," an afternoon of spirited symphonic pieces by great Latin American ...

The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was a prized commodity believed to confer special health benefits.

a competition designed to accelerate the deciphering of the scrolls that form an unprecedented cache of information about ancient Rome and Greece. Using artificial intelligence and other ...

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 ...

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...