The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

Pope Francis is back home in the Vatican after spending 38 days in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where was treated for double ...

The Trevi Fountain, arguably the world’s most famous, has graced screens for decades, from Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” to ...

Festivities began March 9 with a vigil Mass at the parish to commence the March 10–18 novena leading up to the feast day ...

Pope Francis spent the night without a breathing mask, the Vatican press office said March 18, indicating that his need for supplemental oxygen continues to diminish.

Across history, the goddess Aphrodite has remained a prominent figure of beauty and love, and many statues have been built in ...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten liturgical vestments sitting in a wheelchair in front of an ...

Pope Francis is improving slowly as he battles double pneumonia in hospital and is reducing the use of mechanical ventilation at night to help with breathing, the Vatican said on Saturday.

Can I speak with him directly? The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls with ...

After one full month of being hospitalized and treated for double pneumonia and other respiratory infections, Pope Francis' ...