The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

In Catholic tradition, saints are to be revered, but not worshipped. Thus, Anderson said, artistic renderings of canonized ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

At Villa Adriana, built by the emperor ... lectured widely on Roman history, archaeology and landscape design. The banquet hall at Villa Tiberio was once graced with marble statues of mythical ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

The Arch of Titus is one of the most magnificent ancient monuments surviving in Rome and offers a fascinating insight into one of the most volatile periods in Roman imperial history. The Flavians ...

In 7 B.C., at a point along the Via Aurelia, the Romans erected a monument to the emperor Augustus ... opportunity to track down lost vestiges of the Roman world. During the 1960s, in the Italian ...

It was commissioned by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I and designed by ... found itself under siege several times. The turning point came on Sept. 12, 1683. That's when Polish King Jan III ...

From this desolation arose the Messianic faith of Christianity, which, after the conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 312, eventually became the Roman Empire ... s larger point is that ...