(AP) WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut seventh-grader says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map that was on ...

Aquileia, a small town in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy, is now a modest place with barely 3,000 inhabitants. However, its past is among the richest and most significant in ...

Researchers recently found one of the many lost Holy Land cities in Jordan. The team used maps and field surveys to identify the site. Experts believe the lost city Tharais wasn’t just an agricultural ...

Every so often, a visitor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City questions the accuracy of an exhibit, but Helen Evans, one of the museum's curators, says not all of them are right.

“He was short with a good chest, a good nose, fair-skinned, curly haired, round-faced, handsome with receding hair, a florid complexion, with his hair and beard graying.” This description of emperor ...

From the ancient Greek city of Philadelphia—modern Amman—to the mosaic marvels of Madaba, Jordan's landscape reveals ...

Visiting, meditating or praying in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom in Greek) is aesthetically and emotionally exhilarating. Built by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I between 532 and 537 A.D.