Some 1.4 billion Catholics around the globe are in mourning following the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88. The influential leader's death from a stoke and subsequent irreversible heart failure ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...