One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the ...

A faded, four-story building that was once a pasta factory now houses the warehouse and bustling workshop of the Rome Opera ...

Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern Britain that marked the frontier of the Roman Empire — is no stranger to penis imagery. The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering ...

In this three-hour Ancient Rome tour, we will look closely at this period and how ... the story of the Caesars and their political adventures at the turn of the millennium, the intersection of art and ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

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

The head of the basilica that is housing Pope Francis's tomb says it reflects his "humble, simple and essential" life.

Pope Francis is dead at 88. His legacy includes an embrace of contemporary art, such as the first papal visit to the Venice ...

The Vatican Library will host exhibitions combining old and new that reflect Pope Francis's progressive appeals on climate ...