Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern Britain that marked the frontier of the Roman Empire — is no stranger to penis imagery. The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering ...

A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...

A snapshot of the papacies of the 11 modern popes that preceded Pope Francis, from Pope Benedict XVI to Blessed Pope Pius IX.

It’s been five decades since the fall of Saigon, and yet the scars of that conflict remain deeply etched into the hearts and minds of Vietnamese people, both those who remained in the homeland and ...

Eighty years on from VE Day, it’s crucial we remember how ethnically diverse those veterans were and how much they can teach us about the meaning of life.

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit.

New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.

Standing alongside the icon of Mary that Francis often visited in that basilica during his pontificate, the cardinal prayed ...

Whatever Father Bergoglio might have been in the 1970s, Pope Francis was not. He spent half a century defending the oppressed ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blesses the coffin as he leads the funeral Mass of Pope Francis, in Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican, April 26, 2025. He threw in his lot with the Jesuits, the Church ...

Over 2,300 years have passed since the death of Alexander the Great, but he remains one of the most famous historical figures ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized for just over five weeks beginning in February 2025 to address what the Vatican initially said ...