According to legend, travelers who remove artifacts from the historic Italian city are cursed to endure hardship. Many have even returned the stolen items years later ...

A Scottish tourist faces serious charges after attempting to steal artifacts from Pompeii, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The 51-year-old man was caught with stone fragments and a brick, claiming he ...

A Canadian woman has returned five artifacts she reportedly took from Pompeii in 2005, saying they have plagued her with bad luck. The woman, identified only as Nicole, sent two white mosaic tiles, ...

Step inside Pompeii’s Temple of Isis, where Egyptian priests carried out daily rituals with incense, sacred milk, and the sistrum to invoke the goddess. Discover vivid wall paintings of Isis with ...

Journey into the Vatican’s mysterious collection of rare Egyptian treasures, from scorpion goddesses to the powerful lion god of war, and discover how these relics survived alongside Christian ...

Today is Sunday, Aug. 24, the 236th day of 2025 with 129 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and ...

Gianfranco Rosi turns his lens to Italy's Napoli region where Mount Vesuvius looms in a landscape rich with history.

Frankfort, Kentucky is more than the state's capitol. It's a fun weekend escape, especially in the fall, when the foliage is ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be seen as a kind of time traveler. It cannot carry people through centuries, but it can move through the data left behind. From old texts to forgotten places, AI can ...

One of the most intriguing myths of ancient Greece is that of the Minotaur on the island of Crete, the bull-headed human-animal hybrid of Greek mythology. The story of the bestial Minotaur trapped in ...

Archaeologists uncover a 2,000-year-old Roman wooden bridge in Switzerland's Aegerten, revealing oak piles and artifacts from 40 B.C.E. that highlight ancient trade routes and engineering.

Class of 2024 graduate, Chloe Schutt, spent a part of her summer in Italy at the Gabii archaeological dig site. Schutt is ...