It matters that the new pope, Leo XIV, is a son of Saint Augustine. Catherine Conybeare is a Leslie Clark Professor in the ...

Historian Faith Tibble examines the origin of one of the most famous images in the Christian world and how it changed over ...

Rome is a city shrouded in myth yet full of potent physical reminders of many historical triumphs and tragedies. Walking the ...

Recently, the world got a rare treat: new frescoes were unearthed from Pompeii that show mythological scenes from the Trojan ...

Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north ...

The creed set the standard for orthodoxy for 1,700 years. But no one professes the faith today in the ancient Turkish town ...

According to ancient writers and Greek mythology, the muses are the sources of inspiration for the arts and knowledge.

Lounging in a golden robe and crown, the Roman ... of the god Baal. On one occasion, Elagabalus dressed as a woman and rallied Rome's prostitutes in the Forum. Photograph by DAGLI ORTI/ART ARCHIVE ...

The engraving on this scarab from the second or third century B.C. depicts a scene from classical mythology ... it to high art. At first, coins were minted from bronze, but as the Roman Empire ...

Mary Theresa Petrich recalled walking from Hatfield Street in Lawrenceville over the 40th Street Bridge and up the hill to St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Croatian Church in Millvale to attend Sunday Mass ...