As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

What is often forgotten, though, is Rubens’s illustrious career as a Holy Roman Empire diplomat. Turns out, artists have always been subsidizing their income with side hustles.

He told the world he wished to be known as Pope Francis. His trademark humility was genuine, and did much to strip away perceptions of an aloof “Holy Roman Empire”. He immediately discarded ...

Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on MASTERPIECE.

Features Who was Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, the matriarch who was a mother to sixteen children and who ruled for 40 years? An anomaly among 18th century European sovereignty, ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found.

The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, but for area it doesn’t even break the top 20. Clustered around the Mediterranean, it stretched from Portugal in ...

The Holy Roman Empire, not to be confused with the Roman Empire was one of the longest-lasting empires in human history. It is traditionally dated back to when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor ...

The Holy Father will open the second of five Holy Doors for the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in Rome’s Rebibbia prison on Dec. 26, the feast of St. Stephen.

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of territories that existed in central Europe from 962 to 1806. The emperor was not chosen by heredity, like most other monarchies.