Originally, Lent began on the sixth Sunday before Easter. In the sixth century, its start date was moved to the preceding Wednesday to ensure a full 40 days of fasting since Sundays were exempt.

Athens came out as a top contender in this year's Post Office City Costs Barometer, which ranked Greece’s historical capital as the fifth best-value city in Europe. Hotels in Athens are of ...

Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological site of an ancient Roman city.

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

Museum Night returns to Paris this Saturday, May 17, 2025. For the occasion, the Musée de l'Histoire de la Médecine opens its ...

Roughly halfway up the steep hill that encapsulates most of the town of Bar in Montenegro, stretching from the waterfront to ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with Sotterranei di Roma, Undergrounds of Rome, a local group whose members explore ...

Illinois coach Brad Underwood has looked all over the map for players. The result has Illinois one win away from advancing ...

During this time, it is said that the village played a vital role in local governance and community life, with the parish ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds S at 20 mph (32.2 kph). The overnight low will be 58 °F (14.4 °C). Rain with a high of 56 °F (13.3 °C) and a 60% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 16 to 27 ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union government ministers on Tuesday debated ways to keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet over the ...

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