In 1880, Rabbi Solomon Sonneschein stood before a crowd in Saint Paul and offered a striking vision of Judaism — not as a ...

European travel expert Rick Steves encourages travelers to visit his least favorite part of the U.K., if only for one ...

Bright white buildings, sunlit hills, delicious cuisine, and ancient ruins scattered throughout the city—these are just some ...

Duncan Stroik, a leading figure of the traditional sacred architecture revival in the U.S., leans over his firm’s latest ...

Traces of drug use go back to ancient times with research showing that the Greeks and Romans used and sometimes abused ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

The more important towns received privileged juridical status, including the right to strike coins from Roman generals during ...

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

The Wall has grown in significance because it is all that remains of the Temple and because Jews were (and still are) denied the right to pray on the Temple Mount. The Kotel became precious because it ...

A surprising find has been made by Italian archaeologists. They discovered an Ancient Roman bath complex at the Appian Way ...

ROME -- The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...