By the 14th century, it was well known that all roads led to Rome – or, as Chaucer put it, that “diverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte way to Rome”. But it would now seem that Chaucer ...

Delos, the sacred Greek island of pilgrimage, was transformed by the Romans into a major trade hub and slave market.

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

ROME — “Captive Greece held captive her uncouth conqueror and brought the arts to the rustic Latin lands,” as the poet Horace wrote toward the end of the first century B.C., encapsulating in ...

LESBOS, Greece — In an emotional visit to a fenced-in refugee center on this Greek island, Pope Francis told hundreds of displaced families Saturday that "you are not alone" — and underscored ...

Everything old is new again in the MFA’s transformed art galleries of Ancient Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire March 14, 2022 Lloyd Schwartz ...

Rome, Greece, and China, despite their impressive achievements, lacked the comprehensive scientific knowledge necessary to maintain and build upon their initial bursts of innovation.