Zaha Hadid’s last hotel project is one for the ages. Romeo Roma, a spectacular new five-star property in Rome’s historic ...

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break ...

The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of ...

What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

At age 14, Bassianus became emperor of Rome and assumed the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus in A.D. 218. From that moment, his short, chaotic reign would scandalize Rome.

The Vikings in Vinland Saga live to fight and Thorfinn fights in the hope that he can eventually find something more to live for. With much gore and action, Thorfinn’s views on violence ...

Japan 's imperial palace said Thursday that it has fired an employee for stealing cash totaling 3.6 million yen from Emperor Naruhito and his family over more than a year. The Imperial Household ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan ‘s Imperial palace said Thursday that it has fired an employee for stealing cash totaling 3.6 million yen ($24,900) from Emperor Naruhito and his family over more than a year.

Rome’s first emperor commissioned this beautiful and unique circular tomb in 28 BC. According to what experts have discovered over the years, it once housed the remains of Augustus himself, along with ...

Once Rome's sea port, potentially from as early as the 7th Century BCE, Ostia Antica developed into a bustling seaside suburb, reaching a peak of 75,000 inhabitants in the late Imperial age.

2.4-Kilogram Chunk Of Egyptian Blue Pigment Found At Nero's Infamous Party Palace The melon-sized ingot of humanity's oldest synthetic pigment would have cost a pretty penny 2,000 years ago. Tom Hale ...