There are places where history is put on a pedestal—behind glass inside an austere building. In those places, history is ...

Greece early this week welcomed Italy’s return of a marble fragment from the Parthenon, calling on the British Museum to open talks on returning those parts of the archaeological monument it still ...

An archaic shipwreck that dates back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. has been discovered in the waters off the coast of Santa Maria del Focallo, municipality of Ispica, Sicily, Italy. The find also ...

Wildfires have killed at least three elderly people on Italy’s southern island of Sicily as a heatwave and severe storms gripped continental Europe. The charred bodies of a couple in their 70s were ...

PALERMO, Sicily - As Prime Minister Mario Monti fights to protect Italy from the contagion driving up its borrowing costs to perilous levels, one region in particular has been in the spotlight: Sicily ...

Italian premier Mario Monti is mulling emergency action to take direct control of Sicily’s regional government before the island spirals into a full-blown financial crisis, fearing contagion to the ...