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 ...

From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

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.

If we were put in a time machine and transported to first century Rome, freedom would look very different from what we have come to know.

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...