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December 10, 2016
On 11 December 361, Julian Arrived in Constantinople as Sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.

December 4, 2016
The excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 has fascinated people since the first half of the 1700s, but with its popularity comes a challenge for museums to display artifacts in an original and meaningful way.

November 27, 2016
On This Day in History (27 November 180) Commodus became Emperor of Rome.

November 27, 2016
On 27 November 111, Antinous (the man who became first the companion of the Emperor Hadrian) was Born.

November 20, 2016
Drones Document the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval Treasures of Volterra Inhabited for nearly 3,000 years, Volterra’s history is most strongly tied to Etruscan and Roman settlements.

November 13, 2016
Who Was Giuliano da Sangallo? Find Out in Florence

November 6, 2016
Three Artists Interpret Three Dimensions Italian contemporary artists, designers, and architects are at the forefront of developing technologies that are being used for both imaginitive recreations of the past as well as envisioning the future and altogether alternative realities.

October 30, 2016
Coins not the only Currency in Ancient Rome One of the reasons the currency of the Roman Empire was embossed and decorated with images of its leaders and culturally signigicant symbols and landmarks was, as today, to remind users that coins had exchange value because the rulers of the empire had decreed this fact to be so.

October 30, 2016
Julia, the only child of Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) was born on 30 October in 39 BCE.

October 23, 2016
Today is the feast day of San Giovanni da Capestrano (Kapisztrán János in Hungarian).