One of Europe's best-preserved medieval monasteries lies in the Rheingau ... of the white and red half-timbered walls of the old library or admiring the cloister garden in bloom and the historical ...

And high in the great tower of Pantokrator Monastery, a metal library door swings open. There, deep inside the medieval fortified monastery in the Mount Athos monastic Orthodox Christian community ...

St. Catherine’s Monastery is the world’s oldest such institution in continuous use. Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval times—classical texts, scriptures ...

Carved right into the rock, up on a cliffside or overlooking the valley from atop a rocky promontory... In the Balkans, from ...

The monastery was one of many built along the Thames River, which was central to important early medieval trade routes ... according to the British Library’s Alison Hudson.

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian ...

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a handful of 500-year-old gold coins buried among the ruins of a medieval monastery ... book clasps from the monastery's library, ceramics, animal bones ...

Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library that holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at the famed St. Catherine Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

The discovery of a medieval gaming board may have helped bring archaeologists closer to confirming the site of a lost early monastery. Archaeologists have been actively seeking the Monastery of ...

More than 8,000 books given in December by the Holy Trinity Monastery and Spiritual Center in Pikesville will soon be on the shelves of the Villa Julie College’s library. The books — including ...