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This five-mile route offers glorious views of the Wye River and the surrounding landscape and includes the passage through ...
A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He’s done it by sailing like one.
Preliminary archaeological work at the Big Desert of Tatev, a medieval Armenian monastery complex, has already yielded ...
Sean Bean stars in this Tudor murder mystery based on the books by CJ Sansom ...
The future of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula remains a source of controversy with tensions rising after ...
It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon, and location. Think of it as a kind of 14th-century version of Clue: It ...
In the end, the only charge that ever stuck in the murder case was an indictment against one of the family’s former servants.
In a city of eastern Poland, a team got to work renovating a historic monastery. As part of the project, they removed the old wooden flooring — and uncovered some very rare 300-year-old artifacts.
“Transness is not merely compatible with holiness; transness itself is holy,” they write. Transgender saints had to reject ...
Much of the Christian world, especially the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, have been roiled by reports that an Egyptian court has mandated that St. Catherine's Monastery be taken over by the ...
Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...
Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps ...