There’s something unforgettable about medieval monasteries: they weren’t just places of worship—they were fortresses of faith ...

A jaw-dropping medieval property is on the real estate market in England, offering a pastoral life to interested buyers – but there's a catch. The property, called St. John's Jerusalem, was originally ...

A decade-long excavation project uncovered around 120,000 artifacts at a medieval monastery, a book has revealed. Rushen Abbey was founded as a Cistercian monastery in A.D. 1134 on the Isle of Man—a ...

A history buff with a metal detector recently led archaeologists to the site of a medieval monastery – all thanks to a strange symbol spotted on an old map. Arkeologerna, an archaeological ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a cemetery with 50 sets of human remains at a medieval monastery, among other rare finds. A team of researchers and students from the University of Reading made the ...

Students joined archaeologists in a multi-year excavation of a medieval monastery in England. Screengrab from University of Reading's Facebook post In 2021, archaeologists searching the bank of the ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries ...