Miraculously, a she-wolf rescued and cared for the boys until a shepherd, Faustulus, adopted them, raising them on the Palatine Hill, located in modern-day Rome. The legend goes on to say that the ...

Rome is at a standstill ... lined she roads surrounded some of the capital's major historic sites - like the Colloseum - hoping to glimpse the papal procession. Pope Francis’s final moments ...

Down below in Piazza Venezia, a central hub of modern Italy with the humongous Vittoriano national monument, traffic is snarled by excavations for a long-delayed new metro station. Rome is in the ...

A lot of the Roman Empire’s architectural remnants and relics are scattered across modern Rome, the Italian capital, and also West Asia, North Africa, and Western Europe. Roman architecture is ...

Artists owe a great debt to ancient Rome. Over the years ... the past century have captured the city just as indelibly as modern classics by the likes of Martin Scorsese or Spike Lee.

Here's what you need to know about modern pentathlon at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did modern pentathlon become an Olympic sport? The modern pentathlon made its Olympic debut on the men’s ...

But few cities pose such complications as Rome, where two millennia of architectural and cultural history are buried below a vast area of the modern city surface. “It’s more challenging than ...

ROME - The Appian Way, the ancient Romans' first highway and a tourist attraction in modern Rome, has been added to the United Nations' cultural heritage list. Known as the Regina Viarum or Queen ...

Rome's First Highway Added to UNESCO World Heritage List ROME (Reuters) - The Appian Way, the ancient Romans' first highway and a tourist attraction in modern Rome, has been added to the United ...

"All roads lead to Rome'' was historically popularised as an imperial and religious phrase. Emperor Caesar Augustus (Octavian) set the imperial tone by measuring the distance of conquered capitals ...