The art of the perfect weekend getaway lies in maximizing every precious hour while maintaining that delicate balance between ...

Centuries-old private libraries are bringing modern comfort and awe to book lovers and history buffs in New England.

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?

Madison County Historic Matthew Urtz has written a book detailing the fires that struck the county throughout the 19th ...

For the first time in almost five centuries, a British monarch publicly prayed with the Pope during Charles's visit to the ...

Nostra Aetate” was promulgated, marking a definitive change in the church’s approach toward the Jewish people and its own ...

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian collection, featuring sculptures that reflect Roman innovation and ambition.

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 ...

A central plank of his America First policy is to use allies to do the hardest jobs while keeping Americans out of harm’s way ...

Alice Roberts has a gift. Few can make stones live the way she does. An archaeologist by training, a storyteller by nature, she takes broken tiles and battered fragments and makes them shine. Roman ...

John Goodall looks at the sources of inspiration behind the design for the magnificently idiosyncratic West Wycombe Park in ...