Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing ...

as it could easily be reforged into weapons and armour in times of war or shortage. As a result, many Greek statues disappeared, to be replaced by Roman replicas made of marble. Although these ...

You still find some traces of the Moors, and museums display artefacts from various periods of the island's history, including Phoenician, Carthaginian and Roman. Around the ... Century military ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know ...

A replica of this dodecahedron appeared for sale on an internet auction site but the archaeologist who found it says the copy "ripped off" his group's hard work A replica of a Roman dodecahedron ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire ... to be from weapons like spears ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...