The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

New findings challenge the idea that volcanic eruptions and plague caused the Roman Empire's decline, showing growth instead ...

The Cologne Cathedral houses the Shrine of the Three Kings, a reliquary which tradition says holds the bones of the Biblical ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

American freedoms and creativity have given rise to an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity throughout the world.

After a full morning on foot exploring the medieval town of Rhodes, largest of the sun-baked Dodecanese islands, amid a ...

Using ancient DNA, researchers identified migration patterns in Europe during the first millennium AD, linking genetic ...

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 ...

Christian converts in Kosovo, where the vast majority of people are Muslim, hope to revive a pre-Islamic past they see as a ...