Roman Britain's pagan gods were turned into supernatural policemen and executioners to hunt down and punish criminals. New ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark the feast day for St. Silvester.

Merging technology and religion is a risk, not a road to spiritual fulfillment, says a scholar of Christianity.

The Greek word Philoxenia, literally translated as a "friend to a stranger", is widely perceived to be synonymous to ...

Five years on from starting work at San Casciano, an Etruscan and Roman thermal baths, bronze and gold treasure continue to ...

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

The Pillars of Hercules are mentioned in Greek mythology frequently, but what were they? Lets examine the answer to that ...

COVID wasn't the only time humanity faced a disease crisis. These seven ancient plagues changed the course of history as we ...

Twenty people were attending the Baptist church on a Sunday in July when a missile exploded only 500 yards away. Most judged ...

Archaeologists uncovered a nearly 1,800-year-old amulet that offers new insight into the early spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire.

Traces of psychotropic plant matter, human bodily fluids, honey, wheat, yeast, and licorice were detected in a vessel ...

Digging for the past is not necessarily the exclusive domain of archaeologists as workers recently discovered whilst digging ...