The Roman Empire may have fallen more than 1,500 years ago, but its streets never truly disappeared. Across Europe and the ...

A New Year's Eve tragedy occurred in Ostia, where a man died after a firecracker exploded. The incident occurred on Via Cortemaggiore around 5:30 PM. An ambulance arrived on the scene and found the ...

A heady dose of history, beautiful scenery, and delicious cuisine makes these enchanting Italian places ripe for romance. Elizabeth Heath is a writer and editor living on a hill in Umbria, from where ...

Prior to the Romans, Greece was the only part of Europe to have had toilets. But by the peak of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD, the Romans had introduced sanitation to much of their domain, ...

A gold heist in Ancient Greece on the prosperous island of Sifnos is considered to have been among the largest in recorded history. The Sifnos island raid in 524 BC targeted the famed gold and silver ...

In the culturally and historically rich province of Tuscany in central Italy there is an old way of blessing someone verbally. It translates into the phrase “...from the warm waters of San Casciano ...