Excavations of an ancient Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of Fournoi near Samos, Greece are bringing new finds onto the ...

The Italian postal service has seen a huge increase in mail addressed to Pope Francis since his Feb. 14 hospitalization. Some ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices in the ancient city before it was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

An almost life-size frieze, or a 'megalography', has emerged which runs around three sides of the room. The cycle of paintings shed light on the mysteries of Bacchus, the Roman version of Dionysus — ...

The Utahns on BYU's roster have faint memories of the last time the Cougars made the Sweet 16, the 2010-11 team led by Jimmer ...

Pope Francis is recovering well from pneumonia and that a “new stage” in his pontificate would open, two of his closest advisers said ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Urine is the result of a fascinating and complex system – of which the kidneys are the star – that evolved to keep our ...

ROME: An extremely rare cycle of paintings ... It dates from about 40 to 30 BC, making it over 100 years old by the time of the eruption of Vesuvius 79 AD that destroyed the city.

In 1964, the English aristocrat who had inherited the title of 6th Marquess of Exeter challenged Brundage again in Rome ...