The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled to mark the end of the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City, where tens of thousands of mourners gathered to give a final send-off to a pontiff who was cele ...

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

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Popes are usually buried within Vatican City, beneath St. Peter’s Basilica. But Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, as he requested a “simple” ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Stone tools crafted by ancient humans between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago that were recovered from coastal South Africa's ...

Neandertal genetic traces: The ancient individuals had significantly less Neandertal ... key region," added senior author Savino di Lernia from Sapienza University in Rome.

The Romans did have status symbols, just like we do. Portable sundials weren’t very useful or precise, but they said a lot ...