As they worked, the team uncovered a smaller rectangular room with a wide set of steps leading down to a well. Archaeologists identified it as an ancient Jewish ritual bath, known as a mikveh, dating ...

Vatican City • Pope Francis has improved enough to no longer be considered in imminent danger from pneumonia and other ...

The pope’s doctors report that given that his “clinical condition continues to be stable” and “the improvements of recent ...

We just got back from a fantastic 3-week trip to the French and Italian coasts, Rome, and Venice. It was an amazing way to ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Roman Catholic world has ... “In view of the complexity of the clinical picture and the important infectious ...

As Pope Francis enters his 13th year, his hospitalization sparks reflection on his humble approach to leadership, showing a ...

One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family. It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and ...

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.

was discovered during the ongoing excavation of the ancient port city of Ostia. It was the first Roman colony and an important urban center of antiquity, 16 miles from Rome. “This is an ...

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