Sunday, July 05, 2026

History Highlights

Panorama of Butrint

The City That Lived Through All of Classical History and Then Vanished Into the Forest: The Story of Butrint

In the far south of Albania, on a wooded peninsula between a shining lagoon and the channel that separates the mainland from the Greek island of Corfu, lie the ruins

Neapolis of Empuries

The Gateway Where Greece Reached Spain and Rome Landed to Conquer It: The Story of Empúries

On the Mediterranean coast of Catalonia, where a curve of golden sand meets a plain rising gently toward low hills, lie the ruins of a place that is unique in

Temples of Paestum

The Greek Temples in Italy Better Preserved Than Almost Any in Greece: The Story of Paestum

In a broad coastal plain south of the Bay of Naples stand three of the best-preserved Greek temples anywhere in the world, and they are not in Greece at all.

Theatre of Ostia Antica

The Port City That Fed a Million Romans and Then Was Swallowed by Its Own River: The Story of Ostia

Every great city needs a door to the sea, and for a thousand years the door of Rome was Ostia. At the mouth of the river Tiber, where its yellow

Pompeii forum and Vesuvius

The Roman City That Vesuvius Buried and Preserved on Its Last Ordinary Day: The Story of Pompeii

On an August day in the year 79, or possibly a little later in the autumn, the mountain that had loomed peacefully over the Bay of Naples for as long