When you think about Italy and ruins, your mind's eye automatically brings up scenes of the Roman Forum and the Colosseum.

An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais ...

Where to skip: Santorini and its endless crowds—all vying for the same Instagram shot of the white domes—will always be there ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

began in 2003 and has led to thousands of archeological finds ranging from Roman-era roads to Greek mosaics. "This project offers a remarkable blend of the ancient and modern, integrating ...

Tucked in the hills of the mainland is Syvota, a quaint fishing village on the Ionian Sea — the same one that blesses Corfu, ...

A scattering of pock marks on Pompeii’s city walls may prove a mythological “super weapon” may have been real after all.

Emanuel at the hire car place outside our hotel digs into his drawer for the fold-out map he has of the island of Crete. “If ...

Ancient Greek temples weren’t places where communities ... and their stones were used to build fortresses, homes, or roads. Natural disasters played their part, too. Earthquakes, fires, and ...

At first blush, those words hardly seem the fodder for a commencement speech, but that’s exactly the manifesto that speaker ...

There’s levity, some anxiety and maybe a bit of wistfulness—but more than anything, a buzz of excitement for all that lies ...

To save you trawling sites for the latest regulations and fines, we’ve compiled a comprehensive summary for visiting Europe ...