This 12th-century abbey features breathtaking medieval stone carvings and sculptures depicting knights and saints, yet often ...

National Drink Wine Day 2026 celebrates the history, significance, and global love for red, white, rosé, and sparkling wines.

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, scientists from across the globe are using advanced X-rays to find a long-lost map of the galaxy by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, scientists from across the globe are using advanced X-rays to find a long-lost map of the galaxy by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.

The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

What was once a small window on the side of the church is now cemented shut. In front of it, a sign reads: “Site of the cell ...

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the ...

A scorched cherry twig miraculously sprouting; a swamp restored to ‘peak fertility’; healing the broken leg of an ox; and ...

Three hundred and fifty years separate us from the last medieval Maronite epigraph, that of Our Lady of Ilige dated 1277 and the new inscription, dated 1628, at Mar Chalita of Ghosta, which marks the ...

Which city has the most churches and temples? Rome, Jerusalem, and Istanbul come to mind as possible contenders. But if the legends are to be believed, top honors would go to a place you’ve probably ...

The Tatev Monastery is just one of five UNESCO-listed religious sites worth visiting in Armenia, the world’s first Christian nation. Eric Martin/Figarophoto, Redux Since Armenia’s adoption of ...