Hundreds of high-profile delegations are arriving in Rome today ahead of Pope Francis' funeral as thousands of Catholic ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

Though few have heard of the ancient queen, nearly everyone has heard of ... to hold a city inside fortress walls during an attack by Rome in particular in this case." Angeloff added, "We were ...

Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of ...

For bishops and archbishops, the liturgical clothes for a funeral include the alb, a white tunic held by a traditional cord ...

Dan Briden's series continues with the look at the pedigrees of Charlie Appleby's bumper two-year-old team for this season.

This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival of summer.

Austrian ruins previously known as the Desolate Castle were actually once a Roman bridgehead fort. The site served as a strategic trade crossing for the Danube River as part of the historic Amber ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...