The ancient city of Petra is characterised by the hundreds of monumental tombs that are carved in its rocky landscape. What is inside these tombs?

For nearly a thousand years from about 600 BCE onwards, travellers and pilgrims came from all over the Mediterranean world to the remote, windswept island of Samothrace to be initiated into the mystery cult of the Great gods.

Sitting imperiously on the top of Monte Camico in Sicily, Agrigento commands enviable views across the broad coastal plain towards …

For some 2,000 years, the ancient Lycian people controlled a huge area along a 1,000 km stretch of the southwestern coast of Asia Minor. Explore the fascinating history of their culture.

In the medieval West, religion and society are one and the Catholic Church is omnipresent. From the 11th century, the …

The tranquil atmosphere of the small Adriatic city of Ravenna as it appears today belies its important role during one of Western history’s principal watersheds: the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West.