Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

In other words, deaths and dead bodies are usually not abhorrently displayed in public in civilized societies. Of course, in ...

At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an ...

In the U.S., the idea elicited enthusiasm among conservative Christians who hoped that the Jews’ return to Israel would help ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Researchers have recently analyzed 5,436 bones that came from roughly 140 dogs that were sacrificed and buried in an English ...

A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was ...

Worship and the Allure of Power What if God had no power? Imagine a deity stripped of miracles, unable to shape the world, ...

A man called Demetrios was among the first of ancient Greeks to have traveled to England more than two millennia ago.

One key example: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, which carry the story of Jesus’ followers forward after his ...

The Roman Catholic Church still teaches that bodily burial is preferable to cremation, since “like Christ in His Resurrection ...