On a quiet summer evening in Rome, the Vatican Museums reveal a side of history often overlooked by visitors. Within the octagonal courtyard, the oldest part of the museums, countless Roman artifacts ...

Coin tossing in Trevi Fountain guarantees a return to Rome, according to tradition. It has featured in famous 'La Dolce Vita' film scene. Now visitors will have to pay charges to see this Italian ...

The Roman-era poison maker Locusta allegedly played a part in the deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus. What do we know about her life story?

The Vatican will meet next week with the leader of a traditionalist group that announced plans to consecrate new bishops ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of ...

The octagonal courtyard also houses extraordinary displays like the Casali Altar with its depiction of Venus and Mars, the Judgment of Paris, and scenes from the Trojan War, connecting Roman religious ...

On a recent weeknight, long after the swarms of tourists had left Rome's Colosseum, a small group of people walked around ...

The blessing of baby lambs on the feast of the virgin martyr St Agnes is a Roman tradition rich in paschal symbolism: Agnes ...

A new genetic study has revealed that the people of Deep Mani, who inhabit one of the remotest regions of mainland Greece, ...

Allan Massie, who has died aged 87, was a critic and commentator of great seriousness and astonishing fecundity, as well as one of Scotland’s finest novelists; his series of fictions examining the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics: A breakaway group attached ...