An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

The Hôtel de la Marine is taking part in the 21st Nuit des Musées in Paris. An opportunity to discover this sublime historic ...

A surprising highlight was a 16th-century map of Africa depicting the mythical kingdom of Prester John, a gift from the UK, offering a fascinating glimpse into historical cartography and highlighting ...

Archaeologists were excavating a site near Switzerland's Kyburg Castle when they made an astonishing discovery: a remarkably ...

A former 14th century monastery will re-open to visitors this month with a half-term festival and a 60-seat café. Plans have unveiled for Coventry Charterhouse by the National Trust, which has ...

ANSTO scientists from the Australian Center for Neutron Scattering were members of an interdisciplinary team led by the ...

A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

They are taken from the second revelation or “shewing” of the 14th-century mystic’s extraordinary Revelations of Divine Love, the earliest surviving manuscript written by a woman in English. Ill and ...

Jemimah Rodrigues' spectacular century, supported by Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma's half-centuries, propelled India to a 23-run victory over South Africa in the Tri-Nation ODI series.

This is like a reward from God,” a local parishioner said, as researchers unearthed more details about the lives of Leo XIV’s ...

Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, led the church into the modern world, emphasizing its moral authority beyond ...