It was under Byzantine rule until the Ottomans rocked up in 1387, razing the acropolis and building ... dreamt up the canal in the sixth century BCE, but was afraid building it would provoke ...

Thonis-Heracleion once thrived at the mouth of the Nile, a vibrant city pulsing with trade and ceremony long before ...

The book analyzes more than fifty plays, ranging from Greek productions from the fifth century BCE through modern plays of the 20th century, all of which contain courtroom drama. “The common ...

The fifth-century church is one of the four Papal Basilicas in Rome and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. He noted that is also where he visited to pray after each of his more than 100 trips abroad.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Father Regoli pointed out that “the first popes up to the fifth century are buried in the catacombs or some surface monuments. Leo I the Great is the first pope buried in St. Peter’s.

York began as the Roman city of Eboracum, which was founded as a fortress in the year 71 AD, and soldiers remained there until the end of the Roman period in the early fifth century, according to ...

The icon is located in the church first built in the 5th century and devoted to the Virgin Mary. In his will, Francis said he wanted a simple underground tomb with only “Franciscus” written on it.

There they remained until the early fifth century. In 2004, a proposed development of the Driffield Terrace area of the city resulted in an archaeological excavation that revealed 59 inhumations ...