A coin issued by Gaius Caesar - also known as Caligula - decorated with a portrait of the Empress Agrippina and dated to A.D.

This land of beautiful baroque architecture and Maldives-like beaches is where Italians like to holiday – here’s how to ...

Along the Moselle, close to the Luxembourg border, lies a German city with particularly well-preserved Roman remains. So it's ...

To define the plague that devastates the world in her novel The Last Man, Mary Shelley (also the author of Frankenstein) ...

Likely originating out of Crete, the Philistines later took control of the shoreline of today’s southern Israel and the Gaza Strip beginning in the 12th century BC. A cemetery gives clues to ...

“Why that insignificant city?” Rome was a relatively small and localized power. By the mid-4th century BC, Rome was still in the early stages of its expansion, focused primarily on consolidating ...

The triumphal arch was built in the 4th century AD to celebrate the victory of Constantine - the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity - over his rival, Maxentius. It is about 25 metres ...

which is one of the largest such sites in the Mediterranean and includes the remains of an ancient Greek colony founded in the 7th century BC. The discovery was on the same site where 107 Roman ...

The Iron Shepherds took people to the 12th century with a camp showing how people lived when the abbey was first built before the music of Trouvere moved the event into the 13th century.

Earlier this century, MG's final group of British owners, a quartet known as the Phoenix Four, would sell out to China's SAIC. SAIC now sells electric MGs all over the world. It's even building a ...