More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the ...

Centuries-old manuscripts, a rich source of cultural and literary heritage handed down through the generations, are also held in family libraries. But the southeastern town near the border with ...

Sin eaters were prevalent in the United Kingdom from the 16th through 18th century, paid by families to consume bread and beer in the presence of a fresh corpse in order to ritually take on the ...

Additionally, three rare manuscripts illustrating the importance of martyrs in Coptic history are being featured. Two of these are from the Hamouli manuscripts, including the testimonies of Saints ...

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Shortly after Bernadette began to pray the Rosary, everyone present noticed that her face was transfigured and illuminated ... occurred on the Feast of the Annunciation, the Beautiful Lady ...

The museum, located roughly 30 miles north of Emerson’s Netherlands-based campus in the brothers’ birth city of Nijmegen, explores the lives and works of the three artists, 15th-century miniature ...

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert. Oualata is covered in sand everywhere ...

The historic aviation beacon atop the mountain will be illuminated during a ceremony in Danville on Monday evening – hours after Danville will host its 33rd annual Memorial Day Remembrance at the All ...

Image: The site of Thermopylae. Credit: Fkerasar/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 An ancient manuscript that has recently come to light indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae ...