Archaeologists solved the mystery of the ruins of the Desolate Castle, determining that the mysterious site on the Danube ...

The Romans did have status symbols, just like we do. Portable sundials weren’t very useful or precise, but they said a lot ...

Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

Pope Francis stipulated that he be laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, where six other popes are buried.

In theory Francis shared those concerns, promising a more collegial and horizontally oriented church, more synodal, in the ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

A recent paper analyses legal documents from the Roman empire that detail the prosecution of a tax evasion case on papyrus.

Actor Peter Weller on the politics of "RoboCop," jazz and the importance of kindness and spirituality in hard times ...

England is an exasperating contradiction when it comes to cars. The largest nation on this soggy, overcrowded archipelago in ...

For the first time, an archaeological investigation has conclusively documented the existence of a brückenkopfkastell—a Roman ...