The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

Pope Francis has designated 2025 a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, and NJ travel agencies hope a fragile ceasefire in ...

Miraculous births of figures like Jesus, Horus, Heracles, and Alexander the Great are found in ancient myths across different ...

The peasant parade carries a countercultural message: The weak and the powerless gathered together with the divine presence become the powerful. In Holy Week, God puts God’s thumb on the scale to ...

Legend holds that the grotto was also a place for the worship of Cybele ... Naples blossomed into a seaside resort. Roman aristocrats, including the emperor Augustus himself, would travel by ...

One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? How did they die?

“On the day of worship they went into the synagogue ... A ruined temple in Adada, one of several dedicated to emperors or Greek, Roman or Greco-Egyptian deities Ekin Özbiçer A later church ...

Archaeologists found another example of a crucified heel 49 years later in Cambridgeshire, England, in a grave in an ancient ...

From floating shrines and striking synagogues to golden monuments and sprawling sacrificial sites, these are the most ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations coincide — an occasion to reflect ...