Pope Francis had died at the age of 88, a senior Vatican official has announced. History's first Latin American pontiff ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

The first pope from the Americas was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 17, 1936. He was chosen ...

Here are some important dates in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in 2013 and died on Monday.

The scriptures' chronicling of the resurrection of Jesus Christ gives hope to a world where inflated bullies continue to ...

Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with institutions from Canada and China, offers ...

MARTIN MOSSER, a member of the Vienna Department of Urban Archaeology who was part of a project that found rare remains of Roman soldiers traced to A.D. 80 to 234. He was saying that the horror of ...

Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon surrendered to the Romans and became a collaborator during the destruction of the ...

But finding the dead — that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited ...

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating back to ...