Roman City

The city of Aswan was established more than 4,500 years ago and played a crucial role in trade, quarrying and even acted as a military zone.

The graves themselves are a monument to the struggle that society faced when an unforeseen catastrophe hit one of the most important cities in the Holy Roman Empire.

The Pantheon, a former Roman temple, is one of the best-preserved monuments of ancient Rome.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a "prison bakery" where slaves and blindfolded donkeys were kept locked up underground to grind grain for bread, officials said this week.

Italy's cultural ministry said that the flatbread "may be a distant ancestor of the modern dish" but it lacks the ingredients to be considered a pizza.

Pope Francis left hospital on Friday after undergoing a hernia operation and headed to the Vatican, where his health will be under increasing scrutiny ahead of a busy summer.

The Roman city of Pompeii, which was buried under metres of pumice and ash from the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, is being preserved by a herd of grazing sheep.

Pope Francis has said that pontiffs resigning instead of ruling for life should not become a "fashion" in the Roman Catholic Church and happen only in truly exceptional circumstances.

Egyptian archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered an 1,800-year-old "complete residential city from the Roman era" in the heart of the southern city of Luxor.

The Vatican on Saturday said that it and China had renewed a secret and contested agreement on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in the communist country.

In the bedroom of his modest apartment in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, ex-university lecturer Roman Melnichenko has two bags packed: one if he goes to prison, the other if he has to flee.

Chelsea showed they can cope amid the Roman Abramovich turmoil as they won 3-1 against Norwich just hours after their Russian owner was sanctioned by the British government, while Leeds plunged deeper into relegation trouble on Thursday

Chelsea survived a major FA Cup scare to reach the quarter-finals with a 3-2 win at Luton just hours after Roman Abramovich put the club up for sale on Wednesday.

Pope Francis on Sunday for the first time conferred the lay Roman Catholic ministries of lector and catechist on women, roles that previously many had carried out without institutional recognition.

Pompeii archaeologists said Saturday they have unearthed the remains of a "slave room" in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.

The city of Aswan was established more than 4,500 years ago and played a crucial role in trade, quarrying and even acted as a military zone.

The graves themselves are a monument to the struggle that society faced when an unforeseen catastrophe hit one of the most important cities in the Holy Roman Empire.

The Pantheon, a former Roman temple, is one of the best-preserved monuments of ancient Rome.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a "prison bakery" where slaves and blindfolded donkeys were kept locked up underground to grind grain for bread, officials said this week.

Italy's cultural ministry said that the flatbread "may be a distant ancestor of the modern dish" but it lacks the ingredients to be considered a pizza.

Pope Francis left hospital on Friday after undergoing a hernia operation and headed to the Vatican, where his health will be under increasing scrutiny ahead of a busy summer.

The Roman city of Pompeii, which was buried under metres of pumice and ash from the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, is being preserved by a herd of grazing sheep.

Pope Francis has said that pontiffs resigning instead of ruling for life should not become a "fashion" in the Roman Catholic Church and happen only in truly exceptional circumstances.

Egyptian archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered an 1,800-year-old "complete residential city from the Roman era" in the heart of the southern city of Luxor.

The Vatican on Saturday said that it and China had renewed a secret and contested agreement on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in the communist country.

In the bedroom of his modest apartment in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, ex-university lecturer Roman Melnichenko has two bags packed: one if he goes to prison, the other if he has to flee.

Chelsea showed they can cope amid the Roman Abramovich turmoil as they won 3-1 against Norwich just hours after their Russian owner was sanctioned by the British government, while Leeds plunged deeper into relegation trouble on Thursday

Chelsea survived a major FA Cup scare to reach the quarter-finals with a 3-2 win at Luton just hours after Roman Abramovich put the club up for sale on Wednesday.

Pope Francis on Sunday for the first time conferred the lay Roman Catholic ministries of lector and catechist on women, roles that previously many had carried out without institutional recognition.

Pompeii archaeologists said Saturday they have unearthed the remains of a "slave room" in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.