A rare cross-shaped pendant, believed to be more than 1,200 years old, has been discovered in Northern England.

The small cross pendant is made from solid silver covered with a thin layer of gold leaf and is carved with intricate ...

Of course, nothing came of these investigations (other than the foundations of modern chemistry), but it turns out all Boyle, ...

The intricately carved Saxon pendant was likely worn by someone of high status like a church official, experts said.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff for the Roman Catholic Church, will celebrate his inaugural mass on Sunday, ...

Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from the South American country has been quietly dismantling it.

Every year, archeologists stumble across remains that shed light on the culture, politics, and daily life of Pompeii.

A metal detectorist surveying a field in Leeds, England recently happened upon a medieval Saxon pendant covered in gold leaf.

great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e. lead ...

An American boomer from the Chicago area has been elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Whoa! There is so much going on ...