This underrated Italian city near the Adriatic in the Emilia Romagna region is home to Byzantine mosaics that are over 1,400 ...

Italy is still one of the most beautiful countries on Earth, but its most famous cities often feel overwhelmed by their own ...

An underrated European city has a new flight to and from the UK, giving British travellers a chance to discover its unique ...

The ‘Impossible Creatures’ author explains what these magical beasts reveal about human imagination — and why they were once a feature of the nativity ...

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New scientific testing reveals that the marble slab covering Emperor Otto I’s tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral did not come from Greece.

The tomb of Emperor Otto I, known as Otto the Great, in Magdeburg Cathedral turned out to hide an unexpected secret: the marble slab covering the sarcophagus was not mined in Italy or Greece, as ...

Encasing gifts in tissue, or paper decorated with bells, holly and mistletoe, were also popular. The highest standards were ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before Greek settlement.

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging ...

Archaeologists have found the original location of a Hercules fresco that was looted from Pompeii and later repatriated to ...

An excavation in Italy has unearthed the oldest and first known evidence of father-daughter incest in the archaeological record, a new genetic study reveals. The team found genetic clues of this ...