Intrigue, fashion, humility, faith—133 cardinal electors have descended on Rome to choose a new pope and their every move and ...

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

By Joshua Hammer Photographs by Ekin Özbi̇çer The city gate of Ariassos, one of several ancient ... every city-state. Farming and trade flourished. Antioch in Pisidia became a colony for Roman ...

In the final stage of his earthly journey, Pope Francis Saturday was entombed in the papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major as a ...

Not every place has given in to fast trends and constant upgrades. These towns still carry the look and feel of earlier ...

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to ...

Their papacies were in the era of the Roman Empire, which stretched across ... "North Africa was the Bible Belt of ancient Christianity," says Prof Christopher Bellitto, a historian at Kean ...

Before Paul Mescal donned his armor in Gladiator II, Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix faced off 25 years ago in Gladiator; ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

as the city’s rejuvenated sites use every conceivable means to bring the past to life. Imaginative links to history are everywhere. The ancient Appian Way, Rome’s Queen of Highways south of ...

Born in Cairo in 1977 to second-generation Nubian Cairenes, the journalist and novelist Samar Nour experienced things ...