Re called Francis “a pope among the people, with an open heart towards everyone.” He recalled the last image many people have ...

Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners, including dozens of world leaders, flocked to Rome to pay their respect to Pope Francis.

It was followed by a blessing from Eastern rite Catholic churches chanted in Greek by patriarchs and priests. The pages of ...

The Roman soldier thus received a sum, intended in part for his ration of salt, the salarium (money for salt), which gave us our word “salary.” Its value does not diminish during religious ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...

Discover why men wear rings—exploring the balance between tradition and style. Learn how white gold rings for men blend ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

“Family values” have returned to eugenics, the practice of selective breeding of humans to improve their genetic composition.

Cherubini’s remains were identified in December by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was 22 years old at the time of ...