Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire ... but instead declared war on the English Channel and ordered his soldiers to gather sea shells from the beach.

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire ... but instead declared war on the English Channel and ordered his soldiers to gather sea shells from the beach.

Proof of ancient olive trees and grapevines, consistent with a Bible verse, has been found at the Church of the Holy ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have ... Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome, echoed this call and added: “The history of the Jews of Rome is enriched today by another ...

Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of the city, has been turned into a ten-mile-long archaeological park best reconnoitered by ...

Ancient masters of ... 144 B.C. Work begins on Rome’s longest aqueduct, the 56-mile-long Aqua Marcia. The city has doubled in size since the last channel was built. 33 B.C. After the chaotic ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... often considered the father of art history. According to an article in "The New Yorker" magazine, he supposedly ...