VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is being laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as ...

Pope Francis' funeral at St. Peter’s Square drew hundreds of thousands of mourners and a roster of global leaders. After the ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Tens of thousands of people have lined the four-mile route between St. Peter's Basilica and Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where Pope Francis wi ...

VATICAN CITY — As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is being ...

Roman Kodryan said that Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted damage on groups of a mechanized brigade and two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian army near Zaporozhye, Pavlovka, Novodanilovka, ...

Seeing that Pilate did not want to crucify Jesus to begin with, he made that point clear by washing his hands of the affair in front of the multitude during Jesus’ so-called trial (Matthew 27:24). He ...

The Roman soldier thus received a sum, intended in part for his ration of salt, the salarium (money for salt), which gave us our word “salary.” Its value does not diminish during religious ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.