Archaeologists in Crete have uncovered a 3,800-year-old Minoan ritual of demolishing tombs and a communal feast.

Francis is breaking with recent tradition and will be buried in the St. Mary Major Basilica, where a simple underground tomb ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners, including dozens of world leaders, flocked to Rome to pay their respect to Pope Francis.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Pope Francis’ coffin has left the Vatican headed to his burial place in St. Mary Major Basilica across Rome. The coffin is ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for the "most peripheral of the peripheries" and reflected his wishes as ...

The Mirror's Matthew Young, who attended the Pope's funeral this morning, shares an insight from St Peter's Square, where ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

Now, historians say the cross on hot cross buns predates the Christian crucifixion, with the first recorded mention from ancient Egyptian and Greek times ... Symbols and Customs, by American ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...