From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. A picture shows a Catholic cardinal sealing Pope Francis' residence ...

The new category was created to recognize those Christians who sacrifice their life for others ... A local artist had decorated the altar with 32,000 corncobs and 200,000 baby coconuts, pumpkins ...

Rather, they echo fantasies of the ancient ... Greek lore but a majestic, maternal creation from the East, whose multiple breasts hung like papayas from her torso. Among eunuch priests offering sa ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

Especially in the ancient times when the Temple was standing ... Very much like an older city, a Greek or even Near Eastern city in other places. But as you approach the Temple mound you come ...

Any discussion of ‘the cross’ in the Book of Revelation immediately faces a substantial challenge: in contrast with almost ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.