By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.

The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

Explore how Julius Caesar's brutal conquest of Gaul not only expanded Rome's borders but also set the stage for the fall of ...

Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from the third and fourth centuries A.D.

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

Many aspects of Pope Francis’ remarkable program of ecclesial renewal weare prefigured in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s vision for ...

Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

There were at least four ancient dwellings that were partially excavated from the limestone rock. Experts found that the ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.

Roman Buhler is the National Director of the Madison Coalition, working to restore a balance of state and federal power and now, with the Resolutions passed in 29 State Legislative Chambers to ...

The time has nearly arrived. Six weeks from this Sunday, on Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, the Catholic Church in the United States will begin praying a new English translation of the Mass.