When the Vatican appointed the sculptor and architect Michelangelo to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, he based it on the Greek ...

Architecture is not simply about buildings. It is about how space gets organised so that people live inside a set of assumptions without those assumptions ...

Police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk.

Police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk. Police found ...

In 565 AD, Constantinople stood at the peak of its power. With nearly half a million inhabitants, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire was the largest and most magnificent city of its age. Entering ...

Millions of tourists head to the monument each year and it's one of the most visited landmarks in Italy. And now, the ancient ...

Where Between the central neighbourhoods of Sant’Eustachio and Campo Marzio. The historic sites of Piazza Navona, the Pantheon and the Tiber are all under a ten minute walk away, while Rome central ...

One theory suggests the infamous Roman emperor survived an assassination attempt in the tunnel now open to the public.

The new campaign mapped an orthogonal street grid - straight axes and insula-like blocks - typical of planned Roman foundations. Within that layout, the drone data traced a large rectangular forum ...

Fort Stanwix National Monument provides free tours and living history demonstrations throughout the year. The Erie Canal Village recreates 19th-century life along the famous waterway that transformed ...

From Norwegian Art Nouveau to Chinese temples in Malaysia, make sure your vacation includes visits to these wonders of the ...

Can you identify the famous landmark? Test your knowledge of history and memory with this history brain teaser challenge now!