Among the buildings waiting to be fully restored is L’Aquila’s massive, daunting castle, built by southern Italy’s Spanish ...

Like the Byzantines, whose empire survived on ceremony long after it lost its soul, Nigeria developed the rituals of state ...

With a smartphone and an Instagram account, twin brothers Charbel and Giovanni Lteif are closing in on 800,000 followers with ...

Some of the greatest suffering in my life has come not from strangers, but from members of my community, Jews I trusted.

Apollodorus of Damascus, the Greek architectural genius who built Emperor Trajan’s Rome, from his Column to the longest ...

The great mass of waters killed many thousands of people by drowning … the lifeless bodies of shipwrecked persons lay ...

Rome continued on after the Western Roman Empire fell but faced war and a population crash.

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Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two ...

According to an international team of environmental engineers, Roman concrete mixtures would need to outlive modern ...

The district authority overseeing the construction of an aquarium in Rome has terminated a concession contract with site ...