Most forgeries get exposed and forgotten. The fraudster is disgraced, the document is shelved in an archive somewhere, and ...

The proposed 250‑foot arch has sparked debate in Washington. But monumental gateways have shaped politics, memory, and ritual across cultures for millennia.

History Channel documentary/reality series “American Pickers” follows a team of antiquing professionals across the country. Throughout the show, the crew stops to survey what some may classify as junk ...

The exact date of Jesus's birth is unknown, though it is estimated to have been in the spring between 6 and 4 B.C. Christians began celebrating Christmas on December 25 in the 4th century, possibly to ...

As Christmas approaches, Christians across the world are preparing to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Jesus. However, you may be wondering how the holiday exactly came to be. With no ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine received a vision from God: if he embraced Christianity he would win. His ...

*The HISTORY Channel will premiere its gripping new series “History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames” on Monday, January 26 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Hosted and narrated by Golden Globe-winning actor Ving ...

On Dec. 2, 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of Barney Clark, a retired dentist who lived ...

IZNIK, Turkey —On the second day of his inaugural foreign trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the site where early Christian leaders met 1,700 years ago for the First Council of Nicaea — the gathering that ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Before the newly resurfaced ruins of the Basilica of Neophytos, Pope Leo XIV joined with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, hoping to recover the same spirit of unity that once ...

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight about it. That repeated splintering is what makes the Council of Nicaea — a ...

Visitors look at tombs at archaeological excavations of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian Saint Neophytos Basilica, in Iznik, also known by its ancient name Nicaea, northwestern Turkey, Thursday, ...