Opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis inaugurates a jubilee year expected to draw 32 ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday opens the 2025 Holy Year. It kicks off a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw ...

Pope Francis is formally inaugurating the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to ...

Yet there was also a serious side to ancient graffiti. The plot of the first Gladiator film centred on the memory of a democratic Rome that had once been a republic, in contrast to the oppression ...

Roads—hundreds of thousands of miles of them—were an adjunct of Roman strength, a symbol of imperial assimilation.

Traditionally, mostly craftsmen engaged in the conservation and restoration of ancient books, who passed on their skills and ...

A student works in the laboratory at the Institute for Preservation and Conservation of Chinese Ancient Books at the university. [Photo provided to China Daily] It is common all over China and the ...

The first argument came from a Roman ... Porphry's book-length defense of ethical vegetarianism On Abstinence from Animal Food (3rd century AD), which is a great place to find out more about ...

Lane's book “Of Rule and Office” considers Plato’s thoughts on the accountability of those in power, reflecting on his ...

JTA — In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii ... Jewish entertainment in the ancient world and published a book in 2020 on the subject.