Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount ...

The atmosphere in the Eternal City was electric.

A monumental Roman complex has been revealed in Athens, and the city is gaining another open-air archaeological site in its ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. Remains of a sprawling ...

From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

The magnitude of history in Rome, the significance, and associations that the Vatican City triggered mostly made me wonder what the grandeur and the sacredness would evoke in me if I were Catholic.

An unusual quiet blanketed the streets of Rome. The deviation from custom, the lack of a papal appearance meant fewer of the usual crowds of faithful and tourists, leaving the cobbled piazzas and ...

The streets of Rome are bustling as mourners wait patiently in line outside the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major – the final resting place of Pope Francis, whose death on 21 April prompted an ...

In “Ameri- ca, América: A New History of the New World,” Greg Grandin (a professor of history at Yale and author of other ...

The face of a man who met a bloody end almost 2,000 years ago has been recreated by a forensic artist (Picture: Hew Morrison/York Archaeology) A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a ...