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From the must-see locations to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit.

In those roughly 2,000 years since the Roman Empire, the step count has continued to decline. Historical evidence shows the ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient well in eastern Croatia have discovered the skeletons of seven men whose bodies had been tossed in haphazardly. Experts think the remains belong to Roman soldiers ...

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

Archaeologists have discovered the exceptionally well-preserved remains of two men scalded to death by the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, the Italian ...

After decades locked away in a basement, some of the finest sculptures from antiquity have been pulled from the gloom and returned to public view in Rome.

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s ...

The Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, are also believed to have been built during ...

The Heraion of Samos, devoted to Hera, was among the most important sanctuaries of ancient Greece, believed to be the goddess ...