When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

In Rome, Italy, there is an ancient site that houses a famous cat sanctuary. If cats and history are both topics that excite ...

Callistus, Terentius, Hyginus, Narcissus, Asiaticus, Neophytus, Phaon, Pallas… What do these names of historical figures from ...

Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine ...

Conservators have begun assessing the damage to the Arch of Constantine in Rome after the fourth-century monument was struck ...

Ancient Roman concrete, first used in 3rd century BCE harbors for its water resistance, was vital to the Colosseum's ...

In everyday life, Romans preferred simple and comfortable clothing, such as the tunic — a shirt-like garment resembling a ...

Italian authorities began conservation on the ancient monument after a storm caused part of the arch’s frame to collapse.

Who was known for a love of flamingo tongues, why a cheese overdose is dangerous, and why pranking with whoopee cushions is a ...

A lightning strike knocked a chunk of stone off Rome’s ancient Arch of Constantine, just meters from the Colosseum, amid a ...