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

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them seriously enables their success.

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

This Monday marks 80 years since Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was killed in an Italian village towards the end of the Second World War in 1945 ...

The typical college general education curriculum, fractured into discipline-based silos, often fails to engage students with the profound questions and pressing controversies that shape human life and ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

Squat rhinos lived in North America about 12 million years ago, congregating in huge, water-bound herds much like modern hippos.

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Situated beyond S. Giovanni, due east of the city centre, Pigneto is primarily a ...