In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

A three-year campaign has seen historic monuments, sporting events and priceless works of art targeted by activists ...

Elaine Sciolino, formerly the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, has volunteered herself as a chatty, amiable tour ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

Just an hour's flight from Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport and linked by fast (and not-so-fast) ferries from the Italian ...

Mourners will bid a final farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday during his funeral Mass, which is expected to draw ...

It seems like humans always need to know who or what is the best in any category. Renaissance people were no different. A ...

Pope Francis, the beloved Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church who breathed his last today, was also a huge ...

Archaeologists uncovered hidden inscriptions and graffiti left by medieval pilgrims on the walls of the Cenacle, the site of ...

“Little Women (2019)” and “Ladybird” are just two of Greta Gerwig’s amazing list of movies that feature young women as they ...

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) look at what the film gets wrong — and gets right — about the process of electing a new pope.

It was January 15, 1968 when a violent earthquake of magnitude 6.5 devastated the Belice valley, razing to the ground the ...