Roman Republic

Four temples from ancient Rome, dating back as far as the 3rd century B.C. stand smack in the middle of one of the modern city's busiest crossroads.

But until June 19, practically the only ones getting a close-up view of the temples were the cats that prowl the so-called "Sacred Area," on the edge of the site where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

A rare and ancient gold coin that morbidly celebrates the stabbing death of Julius Caesar was returned this week to Greek officials by investigators in New York who had determined it was looted and fraudulently put for sale at auction in 2020.

A marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.

The bust, which art collector Laura Young found at Goodwill in 2018, once belonged in the collection of King Ludwig I of

The prime minister has for years posed as the judge and critic of everyone.

From the very start of his political career he unleashed weighty allegations against individuals and groups and he blamed his opponents for all the ills of the world.

Celebrating 50 years since the premiere of "Spartacus" with choreography by the acclaimed Yury Grigorovich and music by Aram Khachaturian, the Grigorovich Ballet Theater of Russia returns to the Herod Atticus Theater in Athens as part of a world tour.

The almost daily theatrics of the Rouvikonas (Rubicon) anarchist group must be turning into an addiction for its members.

Visitors to the Greek Island of Kos will have noted a building from Roman times, facing Hippocrates' famous plane tree and the Ottoman-era Ghazi Hasan Pasha Mosque. It bears the Latin inscription "Legum Servi Sumus" which means "We are slaves to the law."