Holy water is also removed from the fonts in churches on Good Friday and ... The Apostolic Constitutions uses Roman-style midnight-to-midnight days, so this squares with the New Testament ...

Now, in a new memoir, Roman Year, Aciman describes what happened to him ... presented itself, his perception of the ancient and storied city sweetened. Learn More About the Ph.D. Program in ...

A rare knife handle in the shape of a gladiator has been discovered at Hadrian’s Wall in the north of England, shining a new light on the celebrity status of the ancient Roman combatants. The copper ...

He’s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo Saxon invasion of what would come to be called England. His right-hand man was a wizard, he was handed his famous sword by a deity, and ...

The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament is expected to fetch up to $2 million when it goes up for auction next month. The stone, which dates back around ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii ... After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies buried in mud and ash eventually decomposed, leaving ...

(CNN) — When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it wiped multiple Roman towns off the map ... rewriting their misunderstood history. Ancient DNA sequenced from bone fragments preserved within ...

Photo from L. Destrade and Inrap Digging into the pale brown dirt of southern France, archaeologists painstakingly revealed more and more of a rare ancient Roman site. One structure in particular ...

The statue, slightly taller than a human, according to the post, was found in Varna, the ancient city Odessa, and displayed a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga and ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering ... a spectacularly durable concrete that gave Roman structures ...