CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (Reuters) -Pope Leo interrupted a two-week vacation on Wednesday to celebrate a special Mass exhorting ...

The Italian Open is held at one of the most picturesque venues in all of tennis. The tournament is located in Rome, and the legacy of the world’s most famous empire is strong. Inaugurated in … ...

Whether you're Catholic or not, it's hard to argue with the claim that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is an amazing feat of ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

A spectacular set of Roman statues unearthed in Turkey has shed new light on the art tradition of the lost city of Perga, which was held as the ancient empire’s sculpture capital.

You can see this in the 18 imposing statues of hulking men that circle the track of the Stadio dei Marmi, just outside the main stadium, and the propaganda messages in the mosaics that pave the ...

Instead, I told him I wanted to run on the tracks at UCLA and the University of Southern California. He looked at me, confused, but shrugged and said, “Sure, if that’s what you want to do.” Being a ...

Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to deliver whatever message he was interested in. But that’s not the case ...

There are many reasons an ancient statue might accidentally lose its head — and some for its head to be severed on purpose.

Ħamrun statue makes its way to Rome, along with 1,000 people Journey to commemorate 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Order of Theatines ...

In the capital of the Roman Empire, 150,000 spectators would flock to the Circus Maximus to watch chariot drivers from various factions, the first genuine star athletes of the ancient world.