Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

The process of electing a new pope follows rules and rituals that have been followed, and sometimes tweaked, since the 13th ...

LIX, BCE. The Roman LIX translates into 59 in Arabic, soon to proclaimed “American Numerals” by Trumpius Maximus, newly ...

A Celtic gold coin unearthed from a field in Berkshire could be worth more than £70,000. Considered one of the most important ...

A Celtic gold coin discovered in a field in Berkshire is set to be auctioned with a start price of £70,000. Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's will present the coin, considered one of the most important ...

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...

Many Puerto Ricans in Wisconsin say Bad Bunny's infectious new album is more than just music — it's a love letter to the diaspora.

The official version of the Roman Missal is called the Latin Typical Edition ... to recall that the prayers of the Roman Missal are ancient in origin and have been handed down to us over the ...

Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek ...