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

The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather ...

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

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Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

In 1985, Fendi chose Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and ends, as its symbol: His two faces, one looking toward the past and the other toward the future, echo the two F's that interlock in the ...

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Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named for two sons of the Greek god of war, Ares, which the Romans called Mars. The names Phobos and Deimos mean ...

A grave with the remains of 150 Roman legionaries from the late 1st century AD found in Vienna. Credit: A. Slonek / Novetus The recent discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of approximately ...

Fear and uncertainty, but also an invincible devotion to God, permeated a Roman Catholic Church in Riverhead where hundreds of immigrants gathered for Sunday Mass despite President Donald Trump ...