This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Finland has returned a ceremonial stool that was looted from what is now Benin by French forces more than a century ago, a ...

Henry, by Isle of Wight writer Joe Plumb, portrays the infamous Tudor king in a contemporary setting, far from the 16th-century throne rooms.

The remarkably preserved body of an early modern saint, St. Teresa of Avila, has been exhibited in Spain months after being ...

GPR, a non-invasive geophysical method that uses radar pulses to image the subsurface, allowed archaeologists to detect ...

Leo XIV, the first pope from the Augustinian order, becomes only the second Roman Pontiff from the Americas, following Pope ...

Papal funerals have traditionally been regal affairs—quite literally, because until the middle of the 19th century, Rome’s popes were also the temporal kings of a large chunk of central Italy.

And that then became the custom, with only a handful of popes keeping their baptismal names since, including Marcellus II and Adrian VI, who both served as head of the church in the 16th century ...

With the Virgin and Child at its centre, this painting also depicts two saints, two playful angels, a bawdy scene with a ...

Anna Jagiellon’s story, set over four centuries ago, shows a woman could secure power through a vote, even in an era when ...

Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat to an Italian. Italians got the next best thing in Pope Francis - the ...

Beat Everyone is kicking off a new series where we’re diving deep into what we think are the 15 greatest games of the 21st century for Alabama football. Today, we take an in-depth look at an ...