Contenders for pope emerge from the U.S., Asia, and Africa—raising the chance of a non-European successor to Francis.

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

People have lived on this farm for at least 2,000 years. Researchers now know more about the farm's past than the family who ...

Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off the motorized equipment ...

The world's first recorded case of triplets and a Roman-era king are among the remains of more than 1,500 people held by Hertfordshire museums. Curator Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews said remains held ...

The world's first recorded case of triplets and a Roman-era king are among the remains of more than 1,500 people held by Northamptonshire museums. The triplets and their mother, who died in childbirth ...

A phallus-shaped good luck charm from the Roman era was found inside the wall of a fort. Screengrab from The Vindolanda Trust's Facebook post Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across ...