This is Venetian artist Palma Vecchio’s depiction of Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Saint Helen, who greatly influenced his religious beliefs. Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy Photo) The ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered the ruins of an ancient pagan temple from the Roman period in Italy. The temple was found during excavations in the ancient hilltop town of Spello, which is ...

ROME — Emperor Constantine, the 4th-century ruler whose embrace of Christianity helped spread the Christian faith throughout the Roman Empire, now has a reconstructed statue befitting his ...

The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by, lo and ...

ROME (AP) — Emperor Constantine, the 4th century ruler whose embrace of Christianity helped spread the faith throughout the Roman Empire, now has a reconstructed statue befitting his larger-than-life ...

It once sat majestically at the heart of ancient Rome. Now a vast statue of Emperor Constantine the Great is returning to the Eternal City thanks to a high-tech reconstruction based on surviving ...