Italy

It was the Italian scholar Petrarch who first coined the term “Dark Age” in the…

When it comes to early ancient Rome the lines between fact and fiction, history and…

There are a lot of core concepts of Christianity that are not in the Bible.…

Nestled on the southern incline of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, the Tarpeian Rock stands…

In 1325, an ordinary bucket gained unprecedented notoriety as the alleged trigger for the War…

A casual glance at Roman history seems to suggest it followed a straightforward path. The…

Classical paintings throughout history hint at mysterious celestial phenomena, fueling speculation about unidentified flying objects…

Music has the power to move. Harmonies, chord progressions and songs can transport the listener,…

Ettore Majorana’s work had an enormous impact on the world of physics. He worked with…

Orichalcum was clearly something valuable. It appears in Plato’s dialogues as a prized substance second…

The Apicius Cookbook, known as the De Re Coquinaria or De Re Culinarian (On the…

Sol Invictus, also known as the invincible sun or the unconquered sun, was the official…

Roman history is full of mad, bad, and completely off-the-wall bonkers emperors. Even so, the…

Flying is the safest way to travel, so the airlines tell us. And this is…

We may not know much about Charondas of Catania, but we know he was a…