The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...

It is a measure of the original work’s quality and its excellent adaptation to TV that historical revisionism remains central ...

The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their ...

The excavation revealed a cemetery, with about half of the skeletons found in burial vaults associated with the medieval ...

When the British came to India, they didn’t just bring ships and soldiers—they brought roads. Unlike the ancient trade routes ...

However, outside the vaults, archaeologists uncovered about 150 post-medieval burials in the courtyard, and another 170 burials from an earlier period were found even deeper, according to the release.

Fabio Portella, a professional diver who has worked with marine archaeologists for years, was surveying the seabed near Fontane Bianche when he found two artifacts, Sicily’s Superintendence of the Sea ...

Xiaolu Guo, a fisherman’s daughter, reimagines the whaling epic with added Taoism ...

She is 102. He was 20 when he died, a Jewish soldier killed by influenza in 1919 in Germany after fighting in World War I. But for over a century he had been in Arlington beneath a tombstone ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Further convictions of a man jailed for life for the murder of a British soldier have been referred to the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Further convictions of a man jailed for life for the murder of a British soldier have been referred to the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland.