Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Rome Prize winners. Rome Prize architecture winners are: Akima Brackeen of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

Had enough of the crowds? Once you’ve seen Rome, consider a day trip to these lesser known but no less beautiful towns for ...

EXCLUSIVE: Athos Salomé, who is known as the 'Living Nostradamus', has released a series of bombshell predictions about the ...

Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD 450, ...

The iconic Bay of Naples island of Capri is on display in a new, monumental exhibition that the Met in New York, in ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Rome is creating a new 50-km ring road for cyclists and walkers as part of an ambitious project known as Grande Raccordo ...