Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an original marble map of Ancient Rome that visitors can literally walk over.

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

The map below shows the location of Greece and Rome. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between Rome ...