A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

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By Chioma Gabriel There have been a spate of killings in the middle belt and it keeps escalating by the day. What is your ...

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Christians today celebrate their holiest day, Easter Sunday, which commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Easter has long been a mix of the secular and the sacred, of candy, flowers and ...

Cardinals from around the world must gather for the conclave in which Francis’ successor is selected. Who's on the shortlist?

Before 2015, the ruins of Palmyra were considered among the most intact of the vast Roman Empire. ISIS believed ... a niche destination before the start of the civil war, with just a few thousand ...

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Some of the golden ages Mr Norberg describes will be familiar to readers, but he adds fresh details and provocative arguments ...

Surveying the melancholy ruins “while the bare-footed fryars were singing Vespers,” he was then and there inspired to write his monumental history, The Declineand Fall of the Roman Empire.