45-foot statue of naked woman unveiled at Embarcadero Plaza at foot of Market Street in San Francisco. Artist @marcocochrane ...

Bright white buildings, sunlit hills, delicious cuisine, and ancient ruins scattered throughout the city all make Athens one of the most incredible cities in Europe. The capital of Greece is a ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

A spokesman for St. Peter’s Basilica has said the ancient tradition of devotion to Veronica’s Veil and to the Holy Face of Jesus is a sign of hope and an invitation to return to the essentials in a ...

Bonnie Prince Charlie” — the ill-fated Catholic Stuart claimant to the British throne — is entombed in marble splendor within ...

By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an act of vandalism inside the Immaculate Conception ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

ANALYSIS: New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in ...

The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities ...

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.