past crowds of people with their hands aloft and chanting “great,” to the papal basilica of St. Mary Major. There, Francis was being buried during a private ceremony in a tomb with a one-word ...

They can be body parts, like the 794-year-old tongue of St. Anthony of Padua ... (a coffin inside a sarcophagus inside a cold stone tomb), might have been “confined in a particular microclimate ...

The first hermit was Saint Anthony of Egypt, who retreated to the desert to dedicate his life to silence and contemplation. Eamonn Sweeney retreated to his house in Skibbereen. Unlike Saint Anthony, ...

Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...

Hundreds of people queued to visit the tomb of the late Pope Francis at the St. Mary Major church in Rome on Sunday. Mourners began lining up to visit the tomb of the late Pope Francis at the St ...

A huge false door made out of pink granite uncovered the tomb of an Ancient Egyptian prince dating back over 4,000 years, ...

The tomb of Pope Francis opened for visitors at St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome on Sunday, a day after world leaders and a crowd of hundreds of thousands attended the funeral of the late leader of ...

Image: People take photos of the grave of late Pope Francis inside St. Mary Major Basilica. Pic: AP/Andrew Medichini Image: A single white rose left on the tomb. Pic: Vatican And under the sun ...

A joint archaeological mission has discovered the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re, son of King Userkaf, in Egypt's Saqqara ...

Rome, Italy and Vatican City – Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle and Pablo Virgilio Cardinal David joined the other Catholic cardinals already in Rome in visiting the tomb of Pope Francis in the Papal ...

A recent study challenges the identification of Philip II’s tomb at Vergina, urging reevaluation of the evidence with scientific rigor.