Banners outside the San Giovanni Bosco church on the city's outskirts described him as the “King of Rome”. The priest said he had no control over what happened outside the church. It comes ...

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

Already boasting several titles awarded by Rome, including corrector totius Orientis (governor of the entire East), Odaenathus was also crowned “king of kings” by his own people. Palmyra might ...

The king of sacred things The rex sacrorum ... The vestal virgins Finally, the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the ...

It was one of the capital cities of the Galilee and it's the first capital of Herod's son, who is an independent Jewish client king of Rome during the lifetime of Jesus.... Sepphoris is a ...

The father of Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze came to his defense when ESPN's Dan Orlovsky critiqued the rookie's ...

The mysterious Sibylline Books were a number of secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of Ancient Rome ...

While Pope Francis was out of town in Asia and Oceania, a mini-tempest erupted in Rome after a French court appeared to ...

ROME, Italy — Seemingly every tourist in Rome knows the key to returning to the Eternal City is to toss a coin into the Trevi ...

Rafael Nadal will likely end his glorious Rome Masters journey with a 70-9 score, lifting ten trophies at Foro Italico and writing history. The veteran fell in the second round at one of his ...

Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Lily Collins will have to extend her Roman holiday, because Emily in Paris is coming back for Season 5. The ...

All are welcome for a presentation on Charles Stewart Parnell — the "Uncrowned King of Ireland" — at 11 a.m. Sept. 11 at the ...