When this Queen Anne Victorian was built in 1893, it was quite the status symbol to have Povey glass on display. "People who put in that kind of glass were kind of showing off," said art-glass ...

As a girl, Athanasopoulou spent every summer in Chora, the island’s preserved, whitewashed village, baked into a hill and ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, ...

Amelia Neath looks at some of the dark places people are drawn to where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia ...

Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps is the mightiest mass of ice in Europe. Covering a staggering 66 square miles (171sq km) it has always attracted ...

Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

If headlines about the climate crisis, Trump administration, war in Ukraine and the Middle East and other tragedies open ...

A central courtyard with a large basin adds to the splendor of the house, which is believed to have been owned by a member of Pompeii’s elite in its final years. “This discovery underscores how Roman ...

Museums and galleries have a fresh opportunity to work with a new type of digital art venue that is spreading around the ...

this discovery is one of the largest private bathhouses found at Pompeii. After a nearly two-year excavation, archaeologists also discovered the jaw-dropping art, mosaic floors, and stonework that ...