A decade-long excavation project uncovered around 120,000 artifacts at a medieval monastery, a book has revealed. Rushen Abbey was founded as a Cistercian monastery in A.D. 1134 on the Isle of Man—a ...
The intrinsically civilizational dimension of Christianity in Europe is best captured when visiting iconic religious sites that came into being even before the countries that house them were ...
In the heart of Paris’s 5th arrondissement, the renowned Lycée Henri IV has since 1804 occupied the historic buildings of the ...
Archaeologists discovered 146 skeletons at the site of what was once a medieval church’s cemetery in Northern Ireland. Photo from Gahan and Long Archaeological Services Ahead of construction in ...
A new theory from the University of Bristol suggests that one of history's most famous medieval artifacts may have served a surprising purpose. The Bayeux Tapestry, the iconic 68-meter embroidered ...
Nestled between Lyon and Grenoble in southeastern France, Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye is famed for its Gothic abbey, cobblestone streets, and centuries-old stone houses. The medieval gem was recently ...
PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could ...
Every year since 2012, the French have voted to crown Le Village Préféré des Français, aka "The Favorite Village of the French." This year, a little-known commune in the southeast of France made it to ...