After his death, many volumes of the royal Macedonian library were transported back to Rome ... Epicurean, Stoic). In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius developed a method that could be considered ...

A bronze statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, smuggled out of Türkiye in the 1960s through illegal excavations, has been officially returned to Türkiye, a Turkish official announced.

A new art space is opening in the Vatican with the aim of ‘reflecting diversity’. The Vatican’s Apostolic Library - home to ancient manuscripts and rare books - will now house contemporary art ...

As pope, Francis was the head of one of the historic revealed religions and had ultimate charge not just of the Vatican Museums and Library, with their holdings covering two millennia of ...

He insists "extraordinary" information sits locked away in the Vatican Library - collected from millions of confessions reporting strange sightings or close encounters. It comes after Pentagon ...

and the Vatican Library, including the famed Sistine Chapel with the Michelangelo masterpiece. In many ways, it serves as the Vatican's equivalent to the White House—not just a residence but the ...

The Vatican said Francis had personally written the meditations for the ceremony this year, for the second time in his 12-year papacy. The reflections, each starting with a brief Bible reading ...

The Holy Father was discharged with "protected discharge" after being hospitalized for a polymicrobial infection that led to bilateral pneumonia. Since then, he has continued to show gradual ...

Some 250,000 people paid their respects to Pope Francis during a three-day lying in state at St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican said on Friday, as public viewing ended and world leaders began ...