The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

The honor of delivering the first reading at Pope Francis’ funeral Mass on Saturday fell to Kielce Gussie, an American who ...

It is impossible to understand Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s legacy without accounting for the fact that the late pontiff belonged to a rebellious order.

The exhibition 'Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh' highlights the modernist architecture of Indore's Manik Bagh, showcasing the ...

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

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Cold moonlight, golden sunset and shimmering waters are only three reasons to love Turner. On the 250th anniversary of his ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured ...

WORCESTER ― Worcester Bishop Robert J. McManus called Pope Francis a pastor of the people who had a "will of steel" and wanted, with God's grace, to get through Lent despite his ill health.

In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest ...

A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...