Chiclayo, Peru, is abuzz with celebrations for Pope Leo XIV, a former resident who impacted the community deeply. Originally from Chicago, he spent decades in Chiclayo and was a beloved local figure.

Once a Roman trading hub on the Rhine, Augusta Raurica is Switzerland's largest archeological park and continue to produce ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Pope Francis left a lasting legacy, not least his appreciation for art. In his 2025 biography, “Hope,” Francis spoke of his admiration for the Baroque painter Caravaggio. He ...

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

Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Credit: Jean Léon Gérôme / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists have uncovered the first physical proof that Roman gladiators once fought ... individual match those of a lion.” Marble ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

And beauty in a sculpture depicting the Five Wise Virgins of the Biblical parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins that was just installed outside the Relief Society building. I love the ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands ... and surmounted by the astonishing relief sculpture of the woman and man. They’re standing side by ...