When the Vatican appointed the sculptor and architect Michelangelo to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, he based it on the Greek ...

The little-known ancient Greek city of Europos has started to unveil its secrets in a new wave of excavations that started in ...

Researchers found the remains of the ascetic individual bound in chains. Small metal plates and a tiny cross were found near ...

The discovery, made near the village of Holzthum in northern Luxembourg, includes 141 gold solidi, coins minted under the rule of nine Roman emperors between 364 and 408 AD. Found near the base of a ...

A hoard of rare gold Roman coins dating back to the 4th century has been found near a ... However, Theodosius I, the Christian emperor in the East, disapproved of Eugenius' rise to the throne ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...

Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre surround the restored Edicule, a shrine that Christian tradition ... Early in the fourth century, the emperor Constantine sent an imperial ...

Bassett was shipped to Guadalcanal and then to the Fourth Marines ... to 7 p.m. at the Keeneland Clubhouse. Funeral will be Jan. 28, 11 a.m. at Central Christian Church, 205 E.

They are now believed to have originated in Arabia, arriving in Petra as nomadic merchants around the fourth century B.C., drawn ... Many are simple burial chambers with loculi—niches in which ...

An archaeological discovery near Jerusalem has shaken the foundations of historical knowledge about asceticism in the Byzantine era. A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the ...

DURING my series on the ancient history of Scotland’s towns and villages, I promised I would write about the history of our country’s ...

Former Trincomalee district MP Rajavarothayam Sampanthan passed away on 30 June 2024 at the age of 91. Former Jaffna district MP Somasundaram ”Maavai” Senathirajah died on 29 January 2025 at the age ...