Beyond the entrance of Rome's newest metro station under the Colosseum, there are display cases filled with hundreds of ancient artefacts found during a decade-long construction project.

Hadrian’s Wall stretched 80 Roman miles, from coast to coast. A monumental feat of engineering that marked the edge of the ...

Roman concrete is often hailed as a major engineering feat. It has allowed the Empire’s monumental structures to remain ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

Tucked away in Western Spain, in the province of Badajoz, lies the city of Mérida, the capital of the autonomous community of ...

Scientists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have unearthed a construction site preserved exactly as it was when ...

The world’s highest bridge recently opened in China. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge stretches above a yawning gorge in the ...

From WWI history to a visit to Netherlands’ iconic Delta Works, this cruise is all about luxury, freedom and choice.

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now carbonized into fragile, inky cylinders—lay a scroll so blackened it appeared ...

For those seeking more dramatic scenery, Mohegan Bluffs on the southern shore presents a breathtaking tableau of clay cliffs towering 150 feet above a pristine beach. The 141 steps down to the beach ...