Pope Francis became the church’s 266th in 2013 when the papal conclave elected him after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

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

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of ...

Portland theater owner Tom Moyer paid for the chapel in memory of his wife Marilyn. The building is 1,500 square feet and ...

Why in-the-know travelers are flocking to a chic hideaway in Luxor, once the capital of ancient Egypt.

The Gospel of Matthew describes the death of Christ with incredible signs that are meant to draw our attention to something ...

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