A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the ...

Yes, Mary on Netflix is more of a Christmas movie, since it’s about the virgin mother Mary and the lead-up to Jesus’s birth. But it still features all the major players in the Easter story ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them ...

It marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ– believed to have risen ... Christian times and seasonal celebrations. Over time, these old traditions have become part of how Easter is celebrated ...

"It always makes me feel a little melancholy", says the young, tech-savvy Q, in a pointed jibe to 007, an old-school ... to modern art. The 250th anniversary of JMW Turner's birth is on 23 April ...

Most striking is the famous Step Pyramid, built in the 27th century B.C. by Djoser, the Old Kingdom pharaoh who ... The trove includes many individual works of art, from the gilded portrait ...

“This is a 10- to 12-million-year-old story—it’s a love story ... had taken a windfall from a few big art sales and driven south to Oaxaca looking for local weavers to work with.

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

Pope Francis' favorite painting was Marc Chagall's "White Crucifixion." Here's what the Nazi-era artwork teaches about the ...

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

The church is believed to have been built in part upon the site of Jesus’s tomb, which the Gospel of John describes as having been “a garden.” Their dig uncovered evidence of 2,000 year-old ...