Pope Leo XIV's genealogy can be traced back to Haiti, where his grandfather, Joseph Norval Martinez. His census records tell ...

When President Donald Trump announced the lifting of US sanctions on Syria during his trip to the Middle East this week, it ...

An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

Five years after a fire ravaged the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the beloved Paris landmark has reopened. With finishing touches underway, French President Emmanuel Macron told 60 Minutes what it means.

Due to modern science and technological advances, the overlooked skull has recently come back into the spotlight ...

Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

The Rev. Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote his doctoral thesis on the way local Augustinian superiors exercise ...

Every year, archeologists stumble across remains that shed light on the culture, politics, and daily life of Pompeii.

Sylvia Poggioli has covered several papal conclaves and the Vatican for decades. For this week's reporter's notebook, she reflects on what it's like to cover one of the most secretive institutions in ...

In ancient Roman times, the modern-day city of Utrecht was known as Trajectum ad Rhenum and functioned as a border fort built around a branch of the Rhine River. Based on their recent finds, ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...