Dozens of heads of state will be attending funeral services for Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, at St. Peter’s Square today. Follow here for the latest.

An Egyptian boy living in Istanbul receives a mysterious email with an encrypted file from an old friend, and he almost doesn ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and the place Pope ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

The scholar who identified the message has now found several others, which show that the Luxor Obelisk still has something to ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

A researcher discovered hidden messages called hieroglyphic cryptographies on the Luxor Obelisk in France. Some of the hidden ...

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...