City of Fables Unearths Real Heroes from Roman Era
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It is the home of Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole and Camelot -- or so legend has it.
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NEW PALTZ, New York  - More than 200 e-mail messages awaited Jim Ottaway last weekend. Instead, he spent some time reading the Odyssey -- in ancient Greek.
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A comic book hero mounts a comeback in the footsteps of many others.
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Nov. 3, 2004 - Beauty creams used by the ladies of ancient Rome were not far different from those applied to today&#39;s fair skins, to judge by a discovery in the remains of a Roman temple in London dating from the 2nd century AD.
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Legend has it that the ancient  Romans refreshed themselves with the bubbly water that springs  out of an extinct volcano near Naples, a reference to which can  be found even in philosopher Pliny the Elder&#39;s works.
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An exhibit at the British Museum shows the Parthenon Marbles not as austere colourless ghosts, but as the ancient Greeks saw them.
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A real-time 3-D computer reconstruction allows visitors to navigate the ancient city as if it were 320 A.D. again.
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French scientists and historians are trying to unravel the secrets behind a cache of documents hidden nearly two centuries ago inside one of Paris's best-known equestrian statues.
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Edinburgh makes its case to be the first World City of Literature, backed by authors JK Rowling and Ian Rankin.
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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Nov. 15 - American researcher Robert Sarmast claims to have discovered the remains of the legendary city on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
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COLCHESTER, England  - It is the home of Humpty  Dumpty, Old King Cole and Camelot -- or so legend has it.
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Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of Mars, the god of war, who were suckled as infants by a she-wolf in the woods.
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A Roman statue of Atlas -- the mythical titan who carried the heavens on his shoulders -- holds clues to the long-lost work of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus, an astronomical historian said on Tuesday.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - In the old days, heroes were  commemorated with stone statues in public squares. In today's  video game obsessed society, players can get a Mii.
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This agricultural town is nicknamed Barb City because the spiky wire was perfected here. But the mayor receives postcards from animal activists saying it should be called the city of barbarians.
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The Met's glittery display of tools, armor and sculpture from 17th-century Dresden is a constructive reminder of the artistic roots of wonderment.