The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

When Pope Francis visited the United States in 2015, cheering crowds of Catholics and non-Catholics turned out in New York, ...

The Catholic Church mourns Pope Francis's death after almost 12 years of service. Saint Peter is historically known as the ...

But Schwartz shifted gears and loosely based his musical on the history and legends surrounding the Carolingian Dynasty of Charlemagne and his third son, Pepin. The new musical would retain the ...

The unbroken succession of fifteen Capetian kings began in 987 when Hugh Capet was elected to the kingship of the Franks by his fellow magnates at Senlis, replacing the Carolingian dynasty that had ...

who conquered the peoples of Europe and created an empire. The Carolingian empire entered a period of political and military crisis during the later ninth century and abruptly came to an end in the ...