1,700-year-old tombs — with links to a gladiator — unearthed in Italy. Take a look
The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and being abandoned. Today, Liternum Archaeological Park is on the outskirts of ...
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Archaeologists Unearth Oldest Jewish Ritual Bath Found in Europe
Rome and Ostia to this day are dotted with remnants of ancient Jewish history: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first-century Arch of Titus, commemorating the emperor’s sacking of Jerusalem ...
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Caravaggio, Baroque’s Bad Boy, Gets a Blockbuster Show in Rome
By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Some 430 years after the Lombard ... with a blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini. Chronologically organized ...
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Archaeologists find lost city that rewrites ancient Rome's collapse
At its peak, it was home to some 2,000 people. Fragments of ancient pottery were uncovered at the site, allowing the team to map dates for when it was inhabited. They hypothesize residents fled the ...
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Life imitates art as Pope Francis fights pneumonia while ’Conclave’ heads into Academy Awards
And that is certainly true as Pope Francis battles double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital.
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Vatican says Pope Francis continues to improve but his prognosis remains guarded
(AP video by Francesca Primavilla and Silvia Stellacci) Catholic pilgrims from Mexico gather outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Francis continues to be hospitalized in Rome, Thursday, ...
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Pope Francis' friends around Rome pray for him as he fights pneumonia
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was a frequent visitor to Rome long before he became pope, and over time found his favorite shops and artisans who are now pulling for him as he battles double pneumonia ...
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Ancient human DNA is like a ‘time machine’. Geneticist David Reich unpacks how it affects modern man
New Delhi: Despite years of evolution and racial intermixing, modern man still has traces of ancient humans—Neanderthals and Denisovans—according to American geneticist David Reich. These traces, he ...
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Pope Francis’ health crisis sparks prayers from thousands outside the Vatican
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Vatican No. 2 led faithful in a somber night-time prayer on Monday as Pope Francis continued to battle ...
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The cyclical history of abortion rights
Francis Ford Coppola used Rome as the guiding metaphor for his lifelong project Megalopolis. Our legal language is packed with Latinate homage. OK! We get it! Ancient Rome dominates The Culture and ...
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LA deacons pray for pope while in Rome for Jubilee pilgrimage
(Father Parker Sandoval) As the eyes of the world were on Rome, 40 deacons and their wives from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles were caught up in last-minute changes to Vatican planning while on ...