of land reclamation that began with the Etruscans and continued into the modern age. Every field, every ditch, every row tells a story of work and knowledge handed down, of the ancient relationship ...

Sarcophagus of the Spouses, one of the most celebrated artifacts of Etruscan art will undergo a restoration in full view of ...

The Etruscan language remains one of the most intriguing and mysterious tongues of the ancient world. Although much about the Etruscan civilization has been uncovered, their language is only partially ...

KYOTO -- More than 30,000 spectators were treated to an ancient Japanese imperial procession, a highlight of Kyoto's Aoi Matsuri festival, May 15 as some 500 people clad in aristocratic costumes ...

ready to honour this ancient Celtic ritual marking the beginning of summer: Bealtaine, the May Day festival. Since 2009 the Bealtaine Fire Festival has been reviving this folk tradition ...

One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

But Greek Fest’s half-century mark can’t pass without some special features, said Vickie Catsulis, festival executive committee member. The Midas Touch cocktail, for instance, an ouzo-spiked ...

The Banquet of Cleopatra' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that ...

“This showcases there are yet more examples of these animals, specifically, forms that were active marine predators, filling in more of the picture of how this ancient marine ecosystem ...

Here, there are many more Buddhist temples and monasteries than days of the year, and just about as many festivals. Add in rolling hills, dense forests, and countless never-to-be-named mountains ...