NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

From ancient Rome to medieval Spain to Renaissance Venice, generations of mariners have relied on biscotti as a source of ...

Not a strange name on Southeast Asia's tourism map, Manila – the capital city of the Philippines – has Vietnamese travellers hunting for plane tickets.

Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Scholars have long yearned for more physical evidence from Roman worksites to provide clues. Now, a new study – led by ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

A 63-day torch relay will start in Rome and wind its way through all 110 Italian provinces before reaching Milan's San Siro ...

The Sabines, a Spartan tribe, shaped the early Romans with their martial skill, social order, and lasting cultural and ...

In video footage, it almost looks like an earthquake. The ancient Torre dei Conti, which has occupied a street corner of central Rome since medieval times, is suddenly enveloped in billowing clouds as ...