A Berkshire town's Roman heritage will be "reimagined" thanks to an £80,000 government grant. Reading Museum said it plans to ...

Archaeologists have discovered a cluster of Roman tombs beneath a modern street in Rome, revealing changing burial practices.

“There is nothing more irresistible to an artist than an invitation to come to Italy, and Rome in particular,” Pepi Marchetti Franchi, founding director of Gagosian Rome, tells me. And she’s right.

Beginning in the Renaissance, locals affixed verses protesting various societal ills to six sculptures scattered across the Italian city Elizabeth Djinis - History Correspondent A grand tour of Rome’s ...

If there can be any such person as a "favorite classicist," Mary Beard fills that bill. Erudite but accessible, appealing on and off the page, Beard reaches both a readership familiar with ancient ...

In 312 AD, a single battle changed the course of Roman history. At the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine defeated his ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Roman Empire may have left an amazing legacy — but men allegedly "geek out" about the period more often than expected. A recent TikTok trend prompted women to ask the men in their lives how often ...

ROME — Buongiorno, my hundreds of fellow tourists crowding the Trevi Fountain on this bright spring day. Doesn’t it look magnificent? Isn’t it grand? Aren’t you happy to be the first high-season ...

If you are like me, you are headed home for the holidays. While there may be an even longer list of taboo dinner table subjects this year than any other, the two things we can all agree on is that ...