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

Roman cultural practices began to seep into its territories as it lost control to Germanic tribes. Archaeologists have just ...

The groundbreaking study led by a professor at Maynooth University in Ireland found physical evidence of "Roman gladiatorial ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis' funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is ...

Francis is breaking with recent tradition and will be buried in the St. Mary Major Basilica, where a simple underground tomb ...

There have been twelve Greek Popes in the history of the papacy, with Saint Peter considered to be the first Catholic leader.

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Huffington, a celebrated sculptor who was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the U of A in 2014, died March 15. She was 90.