SPQR stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus, which translates to "The Senate and Roman People" or "The Senate and People of ...

From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.

Romanian officials have joined other world voices in expressing deep sorrow following the death of His Holiness Pope Francis, ...

But before the resurrection, there was the cross, which was widely viewed as a symbol of a terrifying ... the victims of unjust power. If it seems that we are more Roman than Christian these ...

The circuitous procession traversed the Tiber River and symbols of the city’s ancient power, the Roman Forum and Colosseum, as clusters of onlookers snapped images with their phones. The funeral ...

The office of pope, successor of St. Peter, has always been steeped in symbolism. But as popes came and went, one symbol has ...

They waved palm branches — symbols of Jewish resistance ... should be seen as a parody of imperial power: a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a kingdom built ...

The grand and solemn procession, with all the trappings of a sacred rite, by which the body of Pope Francis was transferred ...

It’s also a symbol, a cultural phenomenon ... The first was said to have been commissioned by Constantine, the Roman emperor who converted to Christianity and moved the Roman Empire’s center ...