Throughout the centuries, powerful rulers have looked beyond the physical world for guidance and strength. Kings and emperors ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Archaeologists uncover how early humans in Italy butchered elephants and forged survival from their bones 400,000 years ago.

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...

While the mayors of the cities did sign a peace treaty in 1985, it was a symbolic gesture. In reality, the wars between the two ancient civilizations ended more than 2,000 years prior when Rome ...