Welcome to the world of the 16th-century Italian duel ... "Italy was Christian, profoundly Catholic— the capital of the Roman Catholic Church. How often do people say a Christian thing ...

A trap door in the Pompeian Room of the 16th-century Villa Farnesina in Rome revealed ... mounting a scaffold in the atrium of a historic Roman estate. You spy a small trap door in the vaulted ...

It is believed the Mary Queen of Scots coin was kept for years and accidentally dropped by a thief A 16th Century coin dropped by a thief plundering a Roman fort is among the treasures unearthed ...