After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

AUNDECK OMNI KANING—High school sweethearts Frankie and Betty Corbiere love to travel and have taken some amazing voyages in their more than 40 years of marriage—but this past Christmas season the ...

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

Amid a global conservative turn, artists are disrupting the pastoral genre and its social order of class, gender and race ...

Tom Cruise is back with the Mission Impossible franchise, possibly for the very last time, since the subtitle of his new film ...

Archaeologists at the ancient site of Hadrianopolis in Turkey's Karabük province found a 9.2-centimeter-long conical bronze ...

Police said the Sicilian mafia still had a strong grip on the region, having set aside differences, enlisted new recruits and focused on new criminal ventures.

For many years, the Syrian desert was an incredibly dangerous place. Experts believe the last remnants of Islamic State are still there. But are they really?

A gold and silver hoard near Hezingen reveals pagan rituals amid rising Christian influence in medieval Europe.