In lavish halls, days before a conclave will select a new pope, power brokers came together for a mix of devotion, activism, ...

From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

As Italy turned into a battleground between foreign powers, Rome suddenly found itself in the crosshairs of a marauding horde ...

Our ancient scriptures mention the Kalpavriksha and the Chaityavriksha as a deity which indicates that worshipping trees is indeed an ancient Indian practice The Ancient Aryans worshiped nature Plants ...

Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their power.

Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known society known as the Chavín Phenomenon shared ...

A belief that Jesus travelled to India and adopted Buddhist teachings and methods has been around since at least the 19th Century when scholars attempted to explain the similarities between Christiani ...

Child diagnoses are rising; however, due to changing definitions, systems, and expectations, it is not an epidemic of illness. It reflects growing awareness and need.

Archaeologists have discovered over 100 horse skeletons from Roman times, dating back to the 2nd century AD. These horse skeletons belonged to a Roman cavalry unit stationed at Hallschlag.

Merchant ships carried it around the Mediterraneum wherever Rome was constructing strategic ports and buildings. A century earlier, Herod the Great was King of Judea (now part of Israel). Herod was a ...

Virginia’s flag and state seal feature Virtus, the Roman goddess of virtue ... a research database used by its third- through fifth-graders, the Texas project reported on its website Tuesday.

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta. A trap door in the Pompeian Room of the 16th-century Villa ...