The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread ...

One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His ...

Archaeologists in Selinunte, Italy, have uncovered the sacred chamber of oldest known Greek temple of the ancient city.

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

It’s not coincidental that today’s optional memorial follows the Solemnity of Peter and Paul. Sts. Peter and Paul stand at ...

How did Rome manage to destroy an entire religion? Join us as we explore the history behind the fall of one of the ancient world’s most powerful belief systems.

A surprising find has been made by Italian archaeologists. They discovered an Ancient Roman bath complex at the Appian Way Regional Park had been transformed into a church with a marble baptistery.

The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling ...

Who’s a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Rome’s Ancient Nemesis The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians.

It had been Rome’s most crowded week in the biggest Holy Year pilgrimage in church history since 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII drew two million pilgrims to the first Holy Year. Romei (pilgrims ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.