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The Kosovo Police has published photos of the weapons and various military materials seized in the north of the country in and near the Banjska monastery. According to the Police announcement, it is ...
Finding chaplains on-site at a National Trust heritage property is not something visitors usually expect. But at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, in the north of England, it has become a regular ...
We accidentally discovered a 500-year-old church in rural France—and it’s completely abandoned, yet filled with original ...
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The Hammered Life of a Medieval Monk
Compared to the hard life of a medieval peasant the life of a monk must have been a doddle. Right? Well, no not really.
Preliminary archaeological work at the Big Desert of Tatev, a medieval Armenian monastery complex, has already yielded ...
The English Heritage site of Leigh Court Barn is less than a 20-minute drive from Worcester. Here’s what you need to know about the barn, including why it is there, how to get to it and the ...
Euractiv gained rare access to the monastery, where monks expressed deep anxiety over the future. Euractiv senior editor Sarantis Michalopoulos was in Egypt this week to report on a dispute ...
Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land. Dating back to ...
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 ...
The ownership dispute of the historic St Catherine Monastery in Sinai caused by a court ruling in Egypt has set the Greek government on fire. Greeks and Egyptians are in constant contact seeking a ...