Several decades ago, a national park was declared for some fifty square miles surrounding Troy and UNESCO declared it a World ...

In this map of Ancient Greece, you can spot the various regions of the mainland, the islands in the Aegean and the Ionian Sea as well as the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, a region that was first ...

An ancient Roman road has been unearthed directly beneath modern-day London's Old Kent Road. It would have been used by ...

Something has been stirring in the Eternal City of late. Take the hotels; last year, Rome had an eye-popping influx of ...

like the celebrated Roman ruins of Baalbek, designated a World Heritage site by the United Nations body UNESCO. The historic village of Mhaibib, home to an ancient shrine, and the town of ...

It was used in the worship of the goddess Hathor, mythological... Forgotten Giants: Were There Really Giants in Ancient Times? One of the most enduring myths of humankind is that pertaining to giants.

Vatican City, The Pantheon and Vatican Museums: 3 of the most interesting places to visit while staying in Rome.

The 8,000-year-old tradition took root in France around the sixth century B.C. when the southern Gauls were settled by the Greeks, later to be encapsulated in the Roman Empire. Now, archaeologists in ...

Read on to see how we've ranked the most historic towns and cities in England, Wales and Scotland... The central little city ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.