Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling ...

Alexander the Great brought bananas, parakeets, cotton, and sugar from India to Europe, as well as crucifixion from Persia.

Police said Wednesday that a marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a ...

Police said experts determined the piece dates to the Hellenistic era, a period roughly between 320 and 30 B.C. that was ...