The final stage of the Giro d’Italia, scheduled for Sunday, June 1, will feature a historic passage through Vatican City, ...

BCE is the traditional date of the founding of Rome. What does archaeology reveal about when it was really founded?

A selection by Reuters editors of some of the photos from Pope Francis' funeral with comments by photographers ...

Duquesne University students spending the summer in Rome have a front row seat to history as the world mourns the death of Pope Francis.

Italy’s geopolitical ascendancy is prefigured around developing closer hydrocarbon ties to Libya in order to create an ...

The Italian Resistance offered an entire generation the chance to make radical choices, to decide not only on their deeds but ...

For an interesting and off-the-beaten-path destination in Italy, head to this quiet coastal town near a national park that is ...

Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.

The pope’s portrait is everywhere these days. Here, we found it in a store of liturgical paraphernalia in central Rome. There were also many other symbols around, as a testament to how religion and ...

Thousands of people gathered Thursday for a glimpse of Pope Francis’s body on the second day of public tributes, after St ...

Rome Prize winners. Rome Prize architecture winners are: Akima Brackeen of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire, and ...