The blue glass beads from Venice journeyed around 10,000 miles to the Americas more than five centuries ago and were the size of a blueberry.

ABIDJAN - Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build on Francis's legacy of championing the developing world, though the chances of that ...

Historians may no longer talk of a single Celtic culture, but in The Celts: A Modern History ... ideas in medieval Europe, but Stewart avoids portraying the era as one of dry, disinterested ...

Pope Francis, at 88, was the second-oldest pontiff in modern history after Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at the age of 93. Born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ...

Two groundbreaking studies challenge the traditional timeline of cat domestication, highlighting the pivotal influence of religious worship.

Following are some of the major events of the life and ministry of Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88.

Researchers looking into the origin of domestic cats have long considered that cats likely accompanied early farmers during ...

Cogan is a scholar of early modern European history who has won fellowships from Cambridge University, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, ...

a professor of modern European history at the University of Oxford. Carey and Green have also written and co-authored important sections of the book. Carey guides the reader through Waddesdon’s ...