Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull – potentially belonging to an enslaved Caribbean woman – ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Brutal tyrant or reluctant judge? Pilate’s encounter with Christ exposes the cost of power, fear, and placating the crowd.

Ransom Canyon is a family drama series adaptation of the popular Jodi Thomas book series. The show premiered on Netflix on April 17, 2025.

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international design trend with roots in the UK — and lots of buildings built and ...

Roman aristocrats, including the emperor Augustus himself ... We’ll never know for sure.” Yet the image of Tiberius’ indulgences became a fixture of Capri’s reputation, repeated as ...

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.

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

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

People have gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican to mourn Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope who charmed ...

The image symbolizes the profound and lasting impact of war on individuals and future generations. "This is a quiet photo that speaks loudly. It tells the story of one boy, but also of a wider war ...