From flags to a life-size statue, images and homages to Pope Francis were visible all around the Pedro Bidegain stadium in ...

Crowds of faithful lined the route to St. Mary Major as the late pontiff made his final journey to the basilica he visited ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — From some of the world’s most powerful leaders to those on society’s margins whom Pope Francis always ...

The head of the basilica that is housing Pope Francis's tomb says it reflects his “humble, simple and essential" life.

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

He was a source of inspiration for many artists, even those who have nothing to do with religion, because he was a ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

After an earthquake damaged the building, construction crews started working in the basement and unearthed the forgotten Roman ruins. Take a look.

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.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The late pontiff's radical housing choice broke with centuries of tradition and revealed everything about his vision for a ...