The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and being abandoned. Today, Liternum Archaeological Park is on the outskirts of ...
The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...
The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...
Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...
The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City, and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t ...
The 88-year-old pope gave a thumbs up and acknowledged the crowd after he was wheeled out onto the balcony overlooking the ...
From a balcony, Francis greeted hundreds of people waiting outside the hospital where he had been treated for respiratory ...
The Trevi Fountain, arguably the world’s most famous, has graced screens for decades, from Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” to ...
It s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement of ...
Michelangelo’s dome, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s colonnade and the ancient tomb of the apostle Peter have been recreated within ...
Minecraft, the popular video game known for its blocky, pixelated graphics, has launched a new educational edition that ...