There has been a chilling new Pompeii discovery that has revealed the true horror of the volcanic explosion. For one local ...

A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, selected a papal name with a long and sometimes sordid history in the ...

Over his long career in government and academia, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., transformed the field of international relations, one of ...

The Council of Nicaea in the year 325 was, arguably, the most theologically significant and influential gathering of ...

In 1190, during the Third Crusade, the Domus Hospitalis Sanctæ Mariæ Teutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum (Order of the Teutonic ...

WE have reached the penultimate city, Glasgow, in this series about the ancient history of each of the eight cities ...

It’s not as farfetched as it may seem. Eboracum was home to the 6th Legion of the Roman Empire, which had several soldiers who came from North Africa. In fact, Pearce notes Roman-era pottery ...

In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheatres in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs. Gladiators also ...