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The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

69 x 92 cm. (27.2 x 36.2 in.) ...

Eleven works from the Vatican Apostolic Library are featured in the second Islamic Arts Biennale, held from January 25 to May ...

Assassin's Creed Revelations is set directly after the events of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and is the final part of the Ezio trilogy.

This year, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity commemorates the 1,700th anniversary of the definition of the ...

The Nile map, created with watercolour ink on Venetian paper, is displayed alongside 10 other artefacts from the Vatican ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...

For a thousand years, Russia has had a vision of Constantinople as the centre of Russian power. Her first descent upon it was made in the ninth century, while still a heathen nation; and her ...

The opening of 600 positions for Greek Orthodox priests in the diaspora is expected soon, Proto Thema reported. To date, a ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...