Alternate history is fiction that imagines what would be different if some specific event was changed. A new alt-history ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

By Justin McLellan, Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service Among his first messages, Pope Leo XIV expressed his intention to ...

PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important stops on the Silk Road, bears the scars of ISIS attacks and more than a decade of Syria's civil war. It also carries Syrian ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.

Archaeological find in Gloucester: 317 skeletons and Roman mosaics under old warehouse reveal 2,000 years of hidden British urban history.

The life of the Roman emperor Gera is, in some ways, a tragic tale of brotherly rivalry and parental miscalculation. He was ...

The War in Vietnam pushed me out of academia, turned me into an anti-imperialist and cast a long shadow on my life. The March ...

I pledge to continue and strengthen the church's dialogue and cooperation with the Jewish people in the spirit of the Second ...

In a letter to Rabbi Noam Marans of the American Jewish Committee, Pope Leo XIV expressed his intention to strengthen ...

Nye, who coined the term “soft power”, died yesterday at the age of 88. Here in full is his upcoming article from Monocle’s ...