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

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

VATICAN CITY — As Amazonian bishops gathered at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2019, a man entered a nearby church after dawn and ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

It has now been confirmed that Ireland will be represented at the funeral of Pope Francis by President Micheal D. Higgins and ...

A new exhibition at Pompeii Archaeological Park brings to light the lives of women in the ancient Roman city - from ...

While interhuman relationships may go back to the early years of humanity, there is one ritual known the world over that has a much more recent history: marriage. Evidence suggests that marriage ...

Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

“The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse” is a saying that holds true for the Roman Empire, which expanded ...

During the first half of the 2nd century AD, Bad Cannstatt, near the discovery site, was a major Roman military hub in ...

Faithful and nuns gather by the statue of Pope Pius IX, inside in St. Mary Major basilica, where Pope Francis will be buried, ...