Amid the constant military campaigns, there was also the “Plague of Justinian,” one of history’s worst pandemics, that ...

The Walls of Constantinople stand as one of history’s greatest feats of military engineering, an impenetrable fortress that ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome ...

The fall of the Roman Empire is one of history’s greatest mysteries, and determining the year it truly ended is a complex question with multiple answers. Explore the vast and tangled legacy of Rome, ...

Traveling between these five new and newly reopened museums is both a plunge into the city’s rich history and an exploration ...

We’re headed back to July 25, 306 A.D. when Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. Constantine I was the ...

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that ...

Whether in the misty fjords of the North or the Dnieper River in Kyiv, baptism was often a coerced conversion — a communal ...

Built at the foot of Mount Vermion, the of Veria, Greece was the second most-important town, after Aigai, in the ancient ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia’s ongoing war in ...

On July 26, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Agia Paraskevi, the protector of the eyes. Agia Paraskevi was born in Rome ...