When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

But as the empire began its long decline—Rome would fall in the fifth century A.D.—the Via Aurelia began to disintegrate. In contrast, the Via Domitia, an even older Roman route, constructed ...

VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...

England is an exasperating contradiction when it comes to cars. The largest nation on this soggy, overcrowded archipelago in ...

A self-appointed ambassador of globalization, Rockefeller was the lubricant between banks and bombs, between Harvard men and ...

The rise of Rome from a humble city-state to an imperial power able to dominate the Mediterranean area for centuries is in its own right a historiographical ... of the process of conquering the Roman ...

Transylvania is famous for being the setting of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula," as well as its connection to the ... unsuccessfully warred against the Roman Empire in the second century A.D ...

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

To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

According to ancient Greek mythology, there are five ages known as The Ages of Man, during which time humanity reaches its ...