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Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...

Charleston Animal Society’s “Home for the Holidays” campaign resulted in 257 animal adoptions, according to the shelter staff ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed and entombed a thriving Roman city, researchers are turning to the novel technique of digital archaeology to reveal the “lost Pompeii ...

With no confirmation of Jesus' birth and no mention of Christmas itself in the Bible, you may be wondering how the holiday ...

Father Patrick McCarthy was brutally murdered in 1988. The two half-brothers in prison for the killing say he sexually abused them for years ...

Families are heading home for the holidays while animals are still waiting in their kennels, but the Charleston Animal ...

With no confirmation of Jesus' birth and no mention of Christmas itself in the Bible, you may be wondering how the holiday ...

From the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from the Rhine and Danube to the Sahara, there were a million square miles of ...