Pontifical Swiss guards stand outside the St. Peter’s Basilica, in St. Peter’s Square, where the body of Pope Francis will ...

For decades, Oxford academics at Worcester College drank wine and served chocolates from a silver-rimmed chalice made from ...

Roger Fenton’s photograph “the Valley of the Shadow of Death,” is considered the first-ever iconic war image, and was taken on this day in 1885.

The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire continues with the Second ...

Faithful and nuns gather by the statue of Pope Pius IX, inside in St. Mary Major basilica, where Pope Francis will be buried, ...

The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis – and cemented two Jewish soldiers in ...