Leo XIV marked 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea -- the primary motive for his first foreign trip as pope ...

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A discovery in Sardinia reveals up to 50,000 intact Roman coins, prompting research into trade, shipwrecks, and Mediterranean ...

Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

Pope Leo XIV and Christian leaders gathered at an archaeological site in Turkey to celebrate the enduring faith set out in ...

Pope Leo and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea by praying the Creed ...

We are all invited to overcome the scandal of the divisions that unfortunately still exist and to nurture the desire for ...

Before the newly resurfaced ruins of the Basilica of Neophytos, Pope Leo XIV joined with Patriarch Bartholomew of ...

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A small gold ring, buried for nearly two millennia in what is now eastern France, is reshaping how I think about death, ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

On the second day of his inaugural overseas trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the ancient site of the First Council of Nicaea, in ...