In an astonishing discovery, intact frescoes have been unearthed beneath the white walls of the Church of Saint Nicholas in ...

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine life.

Though I took steps to avoid tourists when I visited the Colosseum, I found it was too crowded to enjoy Rome's iconic ...

Though he was struggling with poor health, Pope Francis announced last November that he planned to visit Nicaea (Iznik, in Turkey) in 2025. Pope Leo, soon after his election, voiced his intention to ...

As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance painter's experimental techniques ...

Kendall County leaders can explain exactly what they were doing ahead of the flood to keep people safe. Warning sirens were just a part of it.

Akiva Goldsman, the Oscar-winning scribe behind ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ ‘I Am Legend’ and now ‘Strange New Worlds,’ looks back on ...

Pope Leo XIV left the group with a prayer and a blessing and a message of unity. And in that papal gallery within the ...

Vatican Museums officials recounted the discoveries in inaugurating the hall, known as the Room of Constantine, after the last scaffolding came down.

There were reports that Raphael had wanted to decorate the rooms not with frescoes, but with oil paint directly on the wall, to give the images greater brilliance. The 10-year restoration of the Room ...

In hard-hit Kerr County, home to Camp Mystic and several other summer camps, searchers have found the bodies of 84 people, ...

A 174-year-old church in Dansville began being torn down Tuesday after partially collapsing over the weekend, according to ...