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 ...
One of the most picturesque cities on the Golden Ring, Pereslavl-Zalessky offers visitors a number of historic buildings to explore. Photographs by William Brumfield The ancient path northeast of ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky devised a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography. His vision of photography as a form ...
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. As so often happens, I was researching something else when I happened to look at this particular Sanborn insurance map of Bedford, dated 1908. There, in the middle of ...
Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...
A monastery in the Himalayas makes for a common sight. But what if you stumbled upon a monastery in the plains of Bengal? That too, right by to the Hooghly River? Bhot Bagan, translating to ‘Tibetan ...
Down a country road across the railroad tracks in this tiny Tehama County farm town, just past a hulking oak tree, you come to a giant white cross showing the way to a California gem where wine, ...
ISTANBUL (RNS) — As news filtered out of Egypt on Thursday (May 29) that a court ruling had called for nationalizing an ancient Orthodox Christian Monastery in the Sinai Desert and the eviction of its ...
More than 150 years of history were stolen from a Northern Kentucky monastery.A burglar stole more than 125 rings and $1,800 in cash from the Benedictine Sisters of St. Walburg Monastery.The Villa ...
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