The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It ...

Our world needs symbols of hope, compassion and something greater than the struggles of this life. For that reason, we believe so many people, not just Roman Catholics, pay great attention to the ...

Piazza San Gaetano, the heart of the ancient agora. The Dioscuri, like ghosts, watch from afar what remains of their ...

Physical evidence of the buns has been found from two thousand years ago, to the first-century Roman empire. Perhaps the most fascinating is a mention in the reference book Holiday Symbols and ...

Here is a list of the garments you may see the new pope wearing once he steps out onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s ...

emphasising its evolution from a symbol of Roman torture to Christianity’s central emblem of salvation. Addressing congregants, Bishop John underscored that the cross’s significance lies in ...

“DA POPE!” blared the front of the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday, one of countless spins on the city’s unique accent, immortalized in “Saturday Night Live” sketches. No matter how Pope Leo XIV actually ...

It’s also a symbol, a cultural phenomenon, and a monument. Naturally, like most monumental structures, Hagia Sophia has its own mythology. Of the many stories ... have been commissioned by Constantine ...

Cats became symbols of Artemis and Diana in Greek/Roman religious practice, mirroring Bastet's significance in Egypt. Norse mythology similarly featured cats linked to the goddess Freyja ...

From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.

You see, the palm was a symbol of Judean national identity, a people that were suffering and simmering under the weight of imperial Roman occupation ... general sent by God to defeat their ...