The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

Throughout the history of Rome, from the republic to the age of empire, the Roman Legions were the best conventional fighting ...

The earliest Christian community was an underground movement. The first pope, Peter, led from the shadows, not the throne.

The relationship between Christianity and the Roman Empire is one of profound significance, and has shaped the evolution of ...

A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

In the summer of 2024, a team of archaeologists was called in at a housing project in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district and ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

The narrative of weak, queer men being the progenitors of societal downfall does not hold as many parallels to history as ...

On April 30, 311 AD, the Roman Emperor Galerius issued what became known as the Edict of Serdica, which made the first formal ...

Cross necklaces have, in a way, become the jewelry of choice most associated with President Donald Trump’s second ...

It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.