Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female religious orders gathered in ...

The COVID pandemic and its aftermath have killed more than 1,220,000 people in the U.S. alone, and this has made everybody more aware of death’s omnipresence.

Archaeologists in Italy unearthed a mysterious stone head, potentially depicting a Roman god, at the Basilica of St. Stephen ...

The Samnites were Italic tribes that migrated from Central Europe to the mountainous south-central region of Italy in the 9th century BC.

Piazza San Gaetano, the heart of the ancient agora. The Dioscuri, like ghosts, watch from afar what remains of their ...

Artemidorus's Oneirocritica offers a unique look at ancient dream interpretation, blending prophecy, psychology and daily ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It ...

Caligula was adored by the people of Rome, too, in part because of their love for Germanicus but also out of sympathy for the ...

Historians believe say three popes wit connections to Africa don dey, di most recent of wey bin reign over 1,500 years ago.

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...