The final stage of the Giro d’Italia, scheduled for Sunday, June 1, will feature a historic passage through Vatican City, ...

BCE is the traditional date of the founding of Rome. What does archaeology reveal about when it was really founded?

Duquesne University students spending the summer in Rome have a front row seat to history as the world mourns the death of Pope Francis.

Italy’s geopolitical ascendancy is prefigured around developing closer hydrocarbon ties to Libya in order to create an ...

Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.

The pope’s portrait is everywhere these days. Here, we found it in a store of liturgical paraphernalia in central Rome. There were also many other symbols around, as a testament to how religion and ...

Thousands of people gathered Thursday for a glimpse of Pope Francis’s body on the second day of public tributes, after St ...

Rome Prize winners. Rome Prize architecture winners are: Akima Brackeen of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory ...

Had enough of the crowds? Once you’ve seen Rome, consider a day trip to these lesser known but no less beautiful towns for ...

The faithful will be flocking to Rome to honor the death of Pope Francis, who died on April 21, with his funeral scheduled ...

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full of pomp and pageantry, as the world’s Catholics bid him farewell and ...

As the Catholic Church prepares for its next chapter, here are the cardinals being talked about as possible successors.