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 ...
Almost 500 years ago, a humble domestic servant from rural East Yorkshire attempted to kill King Henry VIII by performing the ritual of a "black fast". Mabel Brigge, from Holmpton, seems to have ...
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 ...
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 ...
PUTNA, Romania (Reuters) - When 75-year-old Svetlana and her family from the city of Krivoy Rog in central Ukraine reached the snow-covered Putna Monastery in the rolling hills of northeastern Romania ...
The Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript of the Christian gospels, the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and ...