The Easter weekend celebrations bring a four-day break, but it can be confusing to know when the holiday falls ...

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

Not much was known of the young Antinous before he attracted the attention of the ruler of the Roman world at its zenith. He was born in 111 AD in the Roman province of Bithynia, which would include ...

Pope Leo XIV is in Nicaea of Bithynia in western Turkey together with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. On the shores of this ancient city, the two primates are honoring the 1,700th anniversary of the ...

The high symbolism of their joint visit to Nicaea in Bithynia and the possible presence of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance – Relations between the two Churches, plans for a common Easter, prospects, ...

Konuralp Ancient Theatre site in Düzce, Turkey. Credit: Carole Raddato / CC BY-SA 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a possible early Byzantine chapel at the Konuralp Ancient Theatre in ...

The Schöningen spears as presented at the exhibition of the “Paläon” Research Museum in Schöningen, Germany. Credit: MINKUSIMAGES. With kind permission of the copyright holder: Niedersächsisches ...

İZNIK, Turkey (RNS) — For Christian leaders across the world and across denominations, the anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea is providing an opportunity for introspection and, potentially, ...

Scientists have analysed amino acids locked in snail shells to establish a new age for the world’s oldest complete wooden hunting weapons The study used recent advances in a dating method known as ...

Cito tuto jucunde, a phrase that can be translated as “Quickly, safely, and pleasantly,” was the motto of one of the fathers of medicine—a Greek who refuted the Hippocratic doctrine of the four humors ...