His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

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Packs of visitors inched along, brandishing maps ... At its peak, 2,000 years ago, Petra was home to as many as 30,000 people, full of temples, theaters, gardens, tombs, villas, Roman baths ...

On a stony peak somewhere in this region ... Trodden by millions of pilgrims over the ages, this sacred site is marked on many maps as Mount Sinai. Muslims believe that the prophet Muhammad ...

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When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

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is preparing for the start of a courtroom antitrust battle Monday with the US government in a case that could force Mark Zuckerberg to break up his $1.3 trillion empire and sell one of its crown ...