"Breakspear was a young, impoverished lad from England, with no family connections, no money, and it was quite remarkable ...

“It was two billionaire, middle-aged men thinking it was WWE in the hall of the West Wing,” one onlooker said. Technically, ...

Like all royals on whose door this correspondent has ever knocked, getting an audience with Liechtenstein’s Serene Highness ...

Strolls along the Seine, exploring the most picturesque streets or finding the best rooftop views, these are the most ...

Of course, since Peter the disciple was crowned the first pope by Jesus Christ, all 266 popes have been men. However, legend ...

The Vatican today confirmed the Argentine pontiff died following his treatment for bronchitis at Gemelli Hospital in Rome ...

Father Richard Mway is parish priest at St Saviour's in Abbots Langley, whose Catholic church has a stone bust and portrait ... is dominated by the Holy Roman Emperor Barbarossa, "which is perhaps ...

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

Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of ...

While the building’s foundations date to the reign of Roman Emperor Trajan (98–117 C.E.), the murals were created at the beginning of the 2nd century, archaeologists noted. Initial analysis of ...

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

“I believe it all the more necessary to find out the truth from two slave women, whom they call deaconesses, even by torture,” he wrote to the Roman Emperor Trajan.” I found nothing but ...