While Italy’s city life thrums with energy and history, there’s something quietly captivating about the countryside. Think rolling hills dotted with olive groves, vineyards that seem to stretch for ...

For centuries, Italy has captivated the American imagination. Beyond the bustling piazzas of Rome and the romantic canals of Venice lies rural Italy--an emerging frontier for discerning American ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing and reevaluating existing archaeological evidence, ...