The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

In the eastern side of the Roman empire – what is now Turkey – at least two other library-mausoleum buildings have been identified. One is the library at Nysa on the Maeander, a Hellenistic ...

Arriving in a new city and feeling like an out-of-my-depth ignoramus is hardly a novel concept for me. I’ve made something of ...

The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.

In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit the beautiful Italian city Ravenna on their state visit to Italy in April.

Thessaloniki's driverless metro is a kind of hop-on, hop-off museum with centuries worth of ruins along its route ...

Only a walk inside some of its churches will reveal the city’s stunning and colorful Byzantine mosaics! Ravenna, in ...

Next to it is the brick dome of Thessaloniki’s Roman rotunda. Built as a mausoleum for the emperor, this circular building that was later used as a mosque is like a scaled-down version of The ...

Restoration work on the Rusovce Mansion in the capital of Slovakia has unearthed remnants of the first known Roman aqueduct ...

A stunning study of Octavian’s victory monument in Nicopolis, Greece, reveals how massive ships gave him the edge in the 31 ...