Architecture

This complex includes a tomb with underground vaulted corridors and a spacious inner chamber containing the urn. In Byzantine times, that tomb was converted into a church.

First pits, into which pine pillars about 75 cm in diameter were inserted, date back to about 8,000 ...

At the beginning of the 20th century the names were painted over, but in 1987 they came back to life and we can admire them again.

This nickname was first applied to the Great Bell. It may have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall, w ...

There was a belief that the loss of life at Tower Green was somehow a privilege. This questionable p ...

The lowest rows were occupied by senators, the highest by women, slaves, and the poor.

The color is said to change its hue depending on the time of the day–pink in the morning, milky white in the evening, and deep blue at night, with a golden hue when illuminated by the moonlight.

He visited Egypt around 60 - 56 BC.  He distanced himself from the descriptions of Herodotus, whom h ...

It is a chapel built in the style of late medieval Perpendicular Gothic. It is both a church under t ...

There was a marble bathtub, or rather a swimming pool, which was used not so much for hygiene purpos ...