Built by the Normans beginning 1184, the Palermo Cathedral is ... the cathedral's columns. Inside, you will find a crypt, the crown of Constance of Aragon and the tombs of several royal figures.

Palermo and Taormina are good home bases for ... Afterward, head to The Duomo, the 5 th largest cathedral in the world, and see how many gargoyles the kids can count. The Scala Opera House holds ...

Jay A. Martin sent over these interior photos of Grace Cathedral — a reminder of the need for quiet spaces, inside or outside. Grace Cathedral in Nob Hill offers an example of Gothic architecture.

Take a peek inside this unknown pharaoh's tomb. Wegner's team excavated the 3,600-year-old tomb beneath 23 feet of sand at the necropolis of Anubis Mountain. It's part of Abydos, one of the oldest ...

Tombs built with stone contained large quantities of metal weapons, ornaments, and ornate beadwork. Most primary individuals in these graves were adolescents between 12 and 16 years old ...

Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb of an unknown pharaoh beneath around 20 feet of sand at the Abydos archaeological site. The discovery of the tomb of an ancient pharaoh ...

The tomb of the unidentified king is built inside the larger tomb complex of an earlier and powerful pharaoh named Neferhotep I. Its architecture shows connections with earlier Middle Kingdom and ...

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labelled “passage tombs” by archaeologists because they ...

Now, they believe they have uncovered the secret of an ancient Egyptian ritual inside Tutankhamun’s tomb. Dr Nicholas Brown, an Egyptologist at Yale University, claims that some of the treasures ...

A group of archaeologists has discovered a 3,200-year-old tomb that is believed to be linked to a high-ranking military commander from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses III. The discovery was made at ...