The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.
Swap Porto for Braga, Portugal's 2025 Capital of Culture. This historic yet hip city offers Roman ruins, spiritual festivals and divine dining.
I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008, and it only seems to be getting more crowded with tourists. Instead, go ...
In 2024, it was announced that the oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form had been found in Spain, but how did this ...
A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...
An extraordinary, lengthy document dated to around 130 A.D. chronicles a legal case from ancient Judaea ... environment in which Roman law, Greek rhetoric, and Jewish life meet.” ...
Pompeii, a third of which is still buried, had a population of around ... which also reveals a darker side of Roman life. Just behind the hot room is a boiler room, with a furnace sitting beneath ...
Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even ...
An entire block of Pompeii has now been uncovered, revealing a laundry and bakery, as well as the large private house. It's ...
During the short life of this city-state, D’Annunzio established a number of symbols and gestures that he claimed were derived from ancient ... still that it has nothing really to do with Rome.
Three months after swapping their California lifestyle for an idyllic English countryside life, the Ellen DeGeneres and ...
Dating back to the 7th century BC, it stretches over 13,000 miles across the Chinese landscape, snaking through rugged ...