While Malek Aiyaz was in favour of a naval confrontation with the Portuguese, Malik Gopi, as a farsighted diplomat, was the ...

An estimated 400,000 people lined the streets of Rome and gathered inside St Peter's Square for the funeral of Pope Francis ...

In today's GB News Daily Reflection, we mark St George's Day.Not much is known about St George - it is written that he was a soldier in the Roman Army who became a Christian."After the crusades, the ...

The discovery of a Roman horses’ graveyard shows a soldier’s grief at the loss of his equine partner, 1,800 years later. An excavation carried out by the state office for monument preservation ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...

Left: From the research paper: Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain ... rather than soldiers or slaves,” Malin Holst, a co-author of the study ...

Charbel Joseph Antoun, 37, portrays Jesus as he carries a wooden cross while being whipped by a Roman soldier during a Good Friday reenactment in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, ...

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. Credit: Public Domain ...

Peng Zhou/The ConversationIn the sweltering summer of 18 AD, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared wi ...

Christ also bids farewell to his followers and prophesizes that one of them will betray him and hand him over to the Roman soldiers. Around the world, Bishops and priests come together at their ...