Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

Airbnb is giving people a chance to role-play as gladiators as part of a film promotion — to the dismay of some locals.

Pompeii was once a vibrant city full of culture and great prosperity. It had beautiful tree lines streets, large public ...

A maximum of 20,000 people will be allowed to enter each day in an effort to protect the historic site in Italy, where ...

Students clashed with police during a demonstration in Turin on Friday, as thousands of people took to the streets across Italy to protest against the far-right government of Giorgia Meloni ...

The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what ...

Discover the political and cultural landscape of Florence at the turn of the 16th century, when Renaissance masters ...

The Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome is one of Italy’s most important museums, showcasing the art of ancient Rome across four ...

Mario Venezia, head of Italy’s Holocaust memorial museum, called it a “demented act” that “damages walls but not history.” ...

The Colosseum has defended a deal with Airbnb that would open the ancient amphitheatre to gladiator combat, amid a ...

ROME (AP) — The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights — albeit staged — for the first time in two ...

Amid the ongoing calamity of war in Lebanon, the country’s cultural scene is determined to work against the odds to keep its ...