The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

Salzburg, Austria may be a beautiful, historic city, but that doesn’t mean it caters strictly to adult travelers. There ...

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … Continue reading "19 Things You Need To Know About Augustus, The Founder O ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

Templars Today, a private association of lay faithful, signed an agreement with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization to ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Artist Maurizio Cattelan has curated a show of color photography with Sam Stourdzé of the French Academy in Rome, where the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s ...

Eleven works from the Vatican Apostolic Library are featured in the second Islamic Arts Biennale, held from January 25 to May ...