These elaborate costumes, imitations of Roman soldiers, are part of a cherished Easter celebration dating back 350 years in ...

Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

Llandovery is a charming market town in Carmarthenshire, Wales, that's packed with history and has a surprising claim to fame - here's why you should visit.

The recently restored Ponte Sant’Angelo in Rome features 10 angels holding symbols of Christ’s passion, creating a profound ...

Way back in A.D. 6, during the expansion of the Roman Empire ... remembered less for his philosophizing than for being smothered by young Commodus at the start of the swords-and-sandals epic ...

Paul rose, and “motioning with his hand ... a colony for Roman war veterans. As at other such colonies throughout Asia Minor and Syria founded to project Roman power, the soldiers received ...

The Limbourg brothers, Herman, Paul, and Jean, born between 1385 and 1388, were Dutch painters from Nijmegen, but they were ...

Sword swallowing seemingly originated in India around 4,000 years ago, and by the first century C.E., it had spread to Greece and Rome. A late second-century reference to the stunt as entertainment ...

Last year, he dedicated his ... Roman soldier costumes hammered the eleven men to the crosses today. Advert The process is pretty gruesome, to say the least (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images) Crowds ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...