Throughout most of its history, the Bible has been read by only a few. Most people encountered it in oral and visual forms—they heard it, talked about it, prayed with it, or saw it in worship; its ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks the second straight time the cardinals have selected someone from the Americas, as well as a ...

You can now get a sense of the awe-inspiring Parthenon in all its former glory thanks to a multiyear endeavor merging history ...

Zeus, the king of the Olympian Gods, transformed into a white bull to abduct Europa, the princess who gave her name to the ...

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope and second pontiff from the Americas, is a former leader of the Augustinians and a ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus,” which inspired Walter Benjamin, Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders, will go on show to commemorate ...

Bold experimenter Medardo Rosso is credited with inventing modern sculpture, so why has he languished in Rodin's shadow?

Both art forms encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to side.