Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. ROME, Oct. 30 -- Ere this reaches you lovers of Italian architecture may have an additional cause for ...

Where the heel meets the boot of the Italian peninsula, along the Ionian Sea, lies the ancient city of Taranto ... article stated Taranto was older than Rome. Rome was founded in 753 B.C. and ...

Italian archaeologists discovered a "practically intact" metal battle helmet during a recent search in the Ionian Sea ... for protecting ancient artifacts in sea waters, announced the discovery ...

Once Europe's most forbidding coast, this sparkling stretch of the Ionian Sea is slowly revealing lost treasures that date back 2,500 years and shipwrecks from ancient times. Over the past two ...