The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of crypts, ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we're dead ...

The museum’s construction has been such a fiasco — mired by funding lapses, logistical hurdles, a pandemic, nearby wars, ...

The death of Pope Francis initiates a centuries-old process of rituals and traditions culminating with a conclave to choose ...

Following the death of Pope Francis on Monday, a centuries-old process of rituals and traditions will be set in motion, ...

The death of the pope triggers a series of of events that have been enshrined in the traditions of the Catholic Church for ...

Pope Francis died Monday after 12 years as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church ... The coffin will then be lowered into a marble sarcophagus and covered by a stone slab.

The Christian view is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came into this world for the purpose of redeeming lost humanity ...