For centuries in China, men and women gathered to play a game called Cuju. Considered an ancient form of soccer, a pastime, ...

Rome’s Opera House is honoring 125 years of Puccini’s "Tosca." Behind the scenes, a former pasta factory now preserves 70,000 costumes and and sustains Italy’s tradition of opera.

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman sandal near an ancient military fort in Oberstimm, Germany. The highly ...

The last time no pre-conclave order came in to the Vatican's tailor of choice, Gammarelli, was October 1978, when cardinal ...

Amadeus was written by Peter Shaffer in 1979 and premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London. The play made its ...

It is now a rather incredible twenty five years since Ridley Scott's Gladiator came to our cinema screens, making a star of ...

The pope is an iconic figure on the global stage, and dozens of movies and TV shows have been made about various popes throug ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

The second phase took place around 260 A.D. when another Roman emperor renovated the fort. Around the time of the fort’s second phase, the nearby ancient Roman city of Carnuntum began to decline ...

That is why considering what undid the Roman Republic is useful today—if we can learn from the Romans’ mistakes. Augustus was Rome’s first emperor. In so becoming, he dismantled the republic ...

Image An arch commemorating the visit of the Roman emperor Hadrian to Gerasa in Jordan in A.D. 129 or 130.Credit...Andre Pain/EPA, via Shutterstock We are having trouble retrieving the article ...

History suggests otherwise, a scholar explains. (The Conversation) — It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his ...