In a moving homily read by Archbishop Fisichella, the pontiff described how suffering can become "a place of encounter" with ...

Like other monarchs of his time, Shivaji needed divine sanction but he didn’t hesitate to break religious rules.

Think about it, the Luigis, the Tesla terrorists, they would have no problem at all with getting rid of us.” “If Vice ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ... Archaeologists also found a coin decorated with an image of the god Neptune holding a trident. It was likely provided as a symbolic ...

The city said it would provide stewards for its statue of the folk song figure — and repair its bust, which has been damaged by excessive touching. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from London In song ...

a broken mirror and a coin depicting the sea god Neptune were also found in the tomb. These items may have been important in funerary rites, the researchers said. The statues may date back to the ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city, which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted ...

Stewards have been brought in to protect a famous statue of Molly Malone in Dublin after complaints people were groping the sculpture’s breasts. Dublin’s City Council has taken the action and ...