Hotels love to declare that they’re an oasis within a city, Six Senses Rome is, in fact, a real escape from the hustle and ...

Deliverance 2 has just been released. Just like its predecessor, it is known to be very historically accurate. The action of ...

Explore the legacy of the Medici family through its most influential figures, from Cosimo the Elder to Catherine de' Medici.

While coin hoards with a mix of Scottish and English artefacts aren’t necessarily unusual, 15th century hauls are rarely ...

With more than 900    churches, hundreds of palazzos, 10 World Heritage Sites and 280 fountains (the Trevi alone sees some 700,000 euros in coin donations every year), Rome can be an overwhelming city ...

A coin hoard dating to the 15th century has been discovered near a medieval synagogue in Israel. Why it was deposited there, however, is a mystery. Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold ...

He has surveyed the depths of the Mediterranean Sea aboard a nuclear submarine; led dives to excavate shipwrecks from ancient Greece and Rome; and hunted for evidence of sunken ships in the Black ...

It was introduced into the Roman Catholic Church in the 15th century by Pope Gregory XI, then removed from the calendar by Pope Pius V in the mid 16th century. Pope Sixtus V later reestablished ...

Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

The Chronicle of the Morea is the history of 14th-century Greece, specifically the Peloponnese -- once called the Morea.

Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...