One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

The Basilica of St. Clement in Rome. Credit: Ninfamania / Wikimedia Commons At a time when Christianity was still struggling to consolidate itself against old pagan beliefs, a pope named after a Roman ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

Francis has broken with recent papal tradition by choosing to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore instead of St ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

In Greek mythology, Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Though, like other primordial gods, she was not widely worshiped by the ...

This small gem with the god Mercury was originally ... marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a ...