Artists have captured the hidden world of papal elections for centuries, turning secrecy into spectacle for the public.

Archaeologists uncovered walls that date back to between the 9th and 13th century, be part of the Patriarchate. The discovery ...

In ancient Roman times, the modern-day city of Utrecht was known as Trajectum ad Rhenum and functioned as a border fort built around a branch of the Rhine River. Based on their recent finds, ...

Deep beneath the soil of North Macedonia, near the village of Crnobuki, a long-lost city is emerging from the shadows of ...

Ancient Greek sailors, whose sails caught the winds of curiosity and ambition, were among the earliest to venture beyond ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A view of the St. Mary Major Basilica, where Pope ...

The map depicts areas of the insect’s verified presence (shown with cicada symbols) and verified absence (indicated by red hollowed circles). Just hover over either symbol to see the date ...

A recent analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. The USC-led research, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s ...

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service released a map showing the containment area around the blaze: It began in the Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management area in Barnegat Township and has since spread ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall ... as raiders looted freely across the countryside. Rome’s grip slipped. Britain entered what one archaeologist has ...

It was as far away from Woodstock as possible. The performance was filmed over six days in October 1971 in the ancient amphitheatre, with the band playing three songs in the ancient venue ...

The site’s location—on the shore of the Danube River and along the trade route known as the Amber Road, which led from the Baltics via Carnuntum to the Roman Empire—offered a critical trade ...