After a months-long legal battle, the sculpture is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art ahead of its repatriation to Turkey, with newly added context about its provenance.

Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...

Inside, a crowd of Christians, Jews and Native Americans were already packed together to witness the founding of Ararat, a tract of land on nearby Grand Island that was intended to be the first ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

It's very possible the next pope could be from Africa, where the Catholic Church continues to add millions of members.

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Pope Francis on April 21 at age 88.

The Hagia Sophia mosaics are unique and represent the ultimate example of Byzantine craftsmanship. They are the only surviving examples of Byzantine mosaics from such a lengthy time period. They cover ...

Saturday’s majestic open-air funeral for Pope Francis is now followed by election of the next pope by the College of ...

We grieve not just the passing of a pope, but the loss of a holy witness who taught us that to see sacramentally is not to ...

The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.