Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

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 ...

Heavy metals in soil are slashing crop yields and polluting food supplies worldwide, affecting over 1 billion people, a major ...

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 ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

A beautiful European city known for its historic architecture and has roots to Roman history may "disappear soon", experts ...

The white Timorasso grape of Piedmont in Italy was almost extinct in 1987. Today its wine is making a deserved comeback, with ...

Visitors to either Sicily or Sardinia, Italy’s two great island destinations, don’t have to travel far once they arrive to ...