Constantine Manos, the celebrated Greek-American photographer and long-time member of Magnum Photos, passed away on January 2 ...

A 2,300-year-old marble statuette discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, has offered new insights into how dwarves were perceived during the Ptolemaic period (332–150 B.C.). Depicting a muscular, nude dwarf ...

As the Nazis took over Germany and hurtled it toward war and genocide, Bonhoeffer opposed their coopting of the Protestant ...

One of the early puzzles you can find in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle features a tomb below the Vatican, surrounded by ten robed skeleton statues bearing ...

Emperor Constantine the Great famously converted to Christianity in the early 4th century CE. But how did this happen? What did Constantine really believe?

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

A new pedestrian square and walkway connecting Rome’s historic center to the Vatican and renovations to the Trevi Fountain ...

Giuseppe Terragni, the modernist architect, served Mussolini and fascism, but to many, the appeal of his buildings has outlived the taint of their history.

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town known as Byzantium.

If you are visiting Rome with kids or tweens, use this detailed itinerary for 5 days in Rome to help plan your family trip to ...

Papyrus 75 is a single sheet of papyrus that contains the oldest known copy of the Lord’s Prayer, a fragment of the Gospel of ...