Faced with marginalization and disinterest, Asian artists living in 1920s and 1930s Paris are now the subject of a major new ...

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Spain’s King Charles ... Inca emperor Atahualpa is shown in a 19th-century portrait. BPK/Scala, Florence The Inca emperor Atahualpa received warning that Spanish ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

A cottage industry has sprung up around Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope. Many of the revenue streams—even in Rome—are ...

This episode explores how Roman rulers transitioned from political leaders to divine figures worshipped across the empire. While earlier episodes focused on Roman and Greek religious roots ...

The Roman Empire might live rent-free in the minds of straight men, but the LGBTQ+ community should celebrate its history, too. After all, while America has yet to see a gay president, gay men ...

But as the Roman Empire expanded, the presence of sweet chestnut pollen grew. Specifically, the percentage of sweet chestnut pollen relative to other pollen across Europe "shows a pattern of a ...

The name also conjures memories of one of the most distinctive of all papal canvases, Raphael’s 1518-20 group portrait of Pope ... of a western European Holy Roman Emperor.

St. Leo III, who reigned as pope for nearly two decades before his death in 816, crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor in 800. This honor stemmed from, no doubt, Leo’s gratitude for Charlemagne’s ...