The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, about twice as long as Americans have had theirs. As was surely true for the ...

When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

The wealthy owners of Staatsburgh, a historic Gilded Age mansion outside New York City, had tickets for the Titanic's second ...

With only two main streets and 160 dwellings—less than an avenue’s worth of Paris—he must have indeed thought he had arrived in hell. The house boasts ... two ancient cypress trees hold ...