Italy

The Latin alphabet is undoubtedly the world's most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back in time to the eras of ancient Greek and Roman dominance of the entire Western world. In its modern form, with its many...

Italian officials have condemned the alleged rape of a 13-year-old Italian girl by seven Egyptian migrants in Sicily. The young girl's boyfriend was reportedly forced to watch as two of the migrants assaulted her. Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini...

The extravagant Sardinian estate used by Silvio Berlusconi to host the likes of Vladimir Putin and Tony Blair is on the market for half a billion euros, it was announced this week. The former Italian Prime Minister, a media mogul...

Researchers in Italy have discovered traces of cannabis in bone samples from a crypt in modern day Milan dating back to the 1600s. These provide the first physical evidence of recreational use in our species' history. Published in the Journal...

Ethiopia's first ever plane, which was stolen by Benito Mussolini's fascist regime almost ninety years ago, has officially been returned by the Italian government. The plane, named Tsehay in honor of the daughter of then Emperor Haile Selassie, was handed...

In the second century BC, the outstanding Greek engineer, physicist, and writer Philo of Byzantium compiled a list of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World. Amazing works of art and designs have become monuments to man's immense ingenuity,...

Greeks and Italians have so much in common, that one would need years to itemize each aspect of the bonds they share.

White olives known as leucocarpa, or leucolea, is a rare variety of olive tree, mainly found in the south of Italy, in the region historically known as "Magna Graecia," or Greater Greece. Derived from the Greek words for white (leucos),...

A stunning fresco discovered amongst the ruins of ancient Pompeii in 2018 depicts a sensual scene of the Roman god Jupiter, disguised as a swan, and Leda, the Greek mythical queen of Sparta and wife of King Tyndareus. The figure...

Byzantine contribution to art, and especially to painting, was original and reached a degree of expressiveness that can rarely be compared with any other