Washing feet, with its deep spiritual symbolism, is one of several ways Catholics in Rome are welcoming the many pilgrims taking part in the Jubilee of Hope in 2025.

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat.

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

The statue, which features the "Five Wise Virgins," is meant to depict the unity of the women in The Church of Jesus Christ ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

For centuries, the people of Judaea had seen many foreign dynasts claim hegemony over them; the Greeks were but the latest.

A discovery at the site where Jesus is believed to have died, been buried and risen from the dead may prove the sacred ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made at Jesus' supposed burial site, unearthing new evidence in support of the Biblical ...