The man currently mourned by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics was a boy from a Buenos Aires barrio born to a working-class family of immigrants. An Argentinian and the first Latin American pontiff, ...

Pope Francis will be remembered for elevating women to positions of power within the Catholic Church. Vatican author, historian and guide Elizabeth Lev joins Chris Jansing at the Vatican to reflect on ...

When he was elevated to the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was widely expected to shake up the Catholic Church, to liberals’ delight and conservatives’ horror. Such ancient teachings as the Church’s ...

Archaeologists in Peru said Thursday they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, ...

I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what ...

Interested in more Ancient Roman history? See our Colosseum Tour ... Men should wear slacks, and women should wear slacks or skirts below the knee. Shoulders must also be covered. If you are intent on ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

The Hebrew Israelite and Black Hebrew Israelite movements are as diverse as they are controversial, but one thing that ...

Francis has revolutionized the College of Cardinals by passing over large archdioceses like Los Angeles, Venice and Milan in ...

Phryne was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her dramatic trial.

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...