Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and the place Pope ...

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Francis, who had advocated for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, visited Israel and the occupied West Bank in 2014 ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

In 2024, archaeologists working at a construction site for a plaza development project unearthed 51 ancient tombs dating ... painted architectural pieces, photos show. The lower level of the ...

Minecraft's 1.19 Wild Update introduced the Ancient City, a hidden structure within the Deep Dark biome, offering valuable loot but guarded by the Warden. Locating it requires descending below Y ...

Alexandria’s Sufis observed Ramadan in the City of Saints with rituals that are as important today as they have been for centuries. Alexandria, commonly known for its cosmopolitan character ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during his ...

A new discovery unearthed by an international team of archeologists in the heart of modern-day Guatemala has put another piece in the puzzle revealing a turbulent period of time of the ancient ...

But one ancient city in the country’s deep south often flies under the radar, despite being one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on Earth. The city in question is Matera, a UNESCO ...