Maria Barosso, Demolition of the houses in Via Cremona for the excavations in the Forum of Caesar, 1932, pencil and watercolor on paper, Rome, Museum of Rome | Photo: Alfredo Valeriani Roma – It was 1905 when the artist and archaeologist Maria Barosso arrived in Rome as an official at the General Directorate of […]
Seven fully preserved skeletons found in an ancient town in Croatia have been identified as Roman soldiers believed to have lived 1,700 years ago, scientists said in a new article. The skeletal remains were found in 2011 during an excavation in the Roman city of Mursa, located in modern-day Croatia, in a well that had […]
Pope Leo XIV called the first two saints of his papacy in a historic ceremony at St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday, including the first of the Millennial generation. BLesss Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, two Italian laymen born almost a century apart, joined the ranks of mother Theresa and Franciscus of Assisi […]
The Roman Catholic Church will start with traditional rituals to mark the end of one papacy and lead to the start of the next after the death of Pope Francis on Monday. The death of a pope begins a series of events that include confirmation of death in the house of the Pontiff, the transfer […]