The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance ...

On September 13, Pope Francis concluded the longest journey of his papacy—an 11-day Asia-Pacific tour through Indonesia, ...

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More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

Ancient Sea Cow Attacked by a Crocodile and Sharks Sheds New Light on Prehistoric Food Chains Aug. 29, 2024 — A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one ...

The artist would develop a distinctly Protestant imagery that replaced sacredness with utility, functioning essentially as ...

This is a painting that dates back thousands of years to Ancient Egypt. Artworks like this tell us a lot about the time and place that they come from. This painting shows a farmworker using a shaduf.

Several years later, when Charles VII reconquered Normandy and expelled the English from France, he made it his business to annul Joan’s trial, with the help and support of the papacy.

Period of papal history from 1012 to 1048 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leading a life so shameful, so foul, so execrable that he shuddered to describe it. He ruled like a captain of banditti, ...

Archaeologists from the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History have recently conducted an excavation at Holmetjønn, an ancient mountain cabin site along the historic Nordmannslepa trail. The.

On Friday, flying back to Rome from a lengthy trip to Asia, Pope Francis criticized both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and migration. He advised ...