Bright white buildings, sunlit hills, delicious cuisine, and ancient ruins scattered throughout the city—these are just some ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

For Renaissance-era art, head to the 17th-century Pinacoteca Civica, which houses a vast collection of sculptures and paintings ... originally dates back to the 5th century CE – making it ...

The 7th Century BC Draconian Code of Athens made death the penalty for every crime committed. In the 5th Century BC, the Roman Law of the ... execution in the English American colonies was in ...

Often depicted as the courtly knight atop a white horse in the English countryside ... The real St George was born in Turkey sometime in the third century and was a Christian soldier in the Roman army ...

According to Roman historian Titus Livius, known in the English-speaking world as Livy, in the 5th century BC, a number of Roman ambassadors were sent to study the legal systems of Greek city-states.

From the ancient Roman thumbs-up to the modern mystery of ... One of its earliest depictions in art is from the 5th century B.C. Greece, and Homer mentioned it in The Odyssey a century or two ...

Archaeologists have discovered over 100 horse skeletons from Roman times, dating back to the 2nd century AD. These horse skeletons belonged to a Roman cavalry unit stationed at Hallschlag.

However, a recently excavated archaeological site at Huqoq in the Galilee, 12.5 kilometers northwest of Tiberias, includes a magnificent 5th-century finely ... of the Greco-Roman sun god Helios ...

Cilento’s important Greek and Roman monuments are recognised by Unesco ... with just a handful of others – Doric temples from 5th-century BC, wandering in absolute peace between their fluted ...

This forgotten mythology was unearthed by Emily Wilson, a University of Pennsylvania classicist, whose historic new English translation of Homer ... Writing in the 5th century BCE, the playwright ...

In the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre, on Lebanon's south coast, a colonnaded Roman road stretches down to the Mediterranean Sea. The Greeks settled here as early as the 5th century BCE ...