Her book covers bathing cultures from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, to modern Korea and the Ottoman Empire.

Greek and Roman religion venerated one plurality of gods, heroesbut also personifications of abstract concepts. The ancient ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

New radiocarbon dating at the Huqoq sanctuary in the Galilee puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, ...

Having begun design phases before Zaha Hadid’s death, the 74-room Romeo Roma hotel is Zaha Hadid Architects’s (ZHA) first-ever adaptive reuse design and one of her last projects. Inside its orderly ...

A volcanic phenomenon has recently revealed ancient Roman ruins on the shores of Lake Fusaro, near Naples. This discovery sheds new light on the region’s ancient history and raises a number of ...

Magnificent arenas, imperial palaces, forgotten cities... Croatia is home to an exceptional ancient heritage, witness to a ...

Europe is full of ancient wonders, with archaeological sites that take you on a journey into the past. From the remains of ...

It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...