Rome's ancient sites are at eternal peril
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Weeds with stone-splitting roots. Relentless traffic belching pollution. Tourists trampling across the once palatial residences of emperors. Earthquakes and terrorism waiting to happen.
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The ancient Romans may have mastered the art of building impressive aqueducts to deliver water across their empire, but modern day Italian engineers seem to be struggling with water retention, a study shows.
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300-year-old system has been criticized for decades as outmoded, poorly supervised and unfair.
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Cleanup is set to begin within days at the first of three ancient World Heritage sites damaged in the summer's Hezbollah-Israel war &#151; a crumbling old castle rising from the Mediterranean whose foundation stones are now coated with oil sludge.
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Incomplete records and conflicting emotions within the black community make preserving African-American historical sites difficult.
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Increased tourism and nearby development could irreparably harm Jordan's ancient sandstone city.
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MILAN, Italy  - An irreverent Internet site  crammed with pornography has Italy's elite squirming with  unease.
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Historic cemeteries, desperate for money to pay for badly needed restorations, are reaching out to the public in ever more unusual ways.
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Rising levels of alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour in Rome spark a backlash from angry residents.
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Three UNESCO World Heritage sites in Lebanon, which include some of the Mideast's most significant ancient ruins, are in urgent need of repair after a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.N. agency said Monday.
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Britain LONDON -- US-led forces, using Iraq's ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial damage" to one of the world's most renowned archeological treasures, a British Museum report said. The report, quoted in today's Guardian newspaper, said US and Polish military vehicles had crushed 2,600-year-old pavements in the city, a cradle of civilization and home to ...
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Experts from Europe and Asia surveyed 1,400-year-old relics of an ancient citadel in Hanoi Tuesday and said they were concerned the priceless antiquities were at risk from exposure to the elements.
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Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Jerusalem's southern end unnoticed.
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Only about 25m of the reinforced concrete wall panels remain. Some of the panels are pock-marked and worse for the wear of time and the hundreds of thousands of tourists who each year caress the lurid graffiti ...
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BOMBAY -- For centuries, this city has been the citadel where Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest religions, has persevered in the face of overwhelming odds.
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With a steady stream of bleak   predictions that "water wars" will be fought over dwindling   supplies in the 21st century, battles between two Sumerian   city-states 4,500 years ago seem to set a worrying precedent.
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Piles of trash building up in Naples  have filled the air with a putrid stench and spoiled the view  for tourists, but the city's waste crisis may also be killing  its people.