The castle took on new life in the 1400s when the duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza, reconstructed an ancient site. He turned it into the Sforza Castle, complete with towers, courtyards, and ...

Nowadays, the castle complex is home to three different museums—Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, the Museum of the Rondanini Pieta, and the Museum of Ancient Art. While the underground system ...

The dish can be traced back thousands of years to 800 B.C., when a version was mentioned in the ancient Greek poet Homer’s “The Iliad.” The earliest written recipes for “Käss mit Wein zu ...

Homer (c. 8th–7th century BC) is one of the most renowned poets of ancient Greece and is traditionally credited with composing two of the most significant epic poems in Western literature: The Iliad ...

Stand By Me, a work by American-Chinese composer Alex Dea, draws inspiration from the gamelan and ancient Greek poet Sappho, renowned for her evocative lyric poetry. This minimalist piece ...

Nowadays, the castle complex is home to three different museums—Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, the Museum of the Rondanini Pieta, and the Museum of Ancient Art. 500 Years Later, MIT Proves ...

The castle took on new life in the 1400s when the duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza, reconstructed an ancient site. He turned it into the Sforza Castle, complete with towers, courtyards, and ...

who is possibly the most famous ancient Greek poet in history. Possibly the most common and popular form of gambling in Greece involved various dice games. As in many ancient cultures, such as Iran, ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...