A jaw-dropping medieval property is on the real estate market in England, offering a pastoral life to interested buyers – but there's a catch. The property, called St. John's Jerusalem, was originally ...

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Four cemeteries, from which at least 123 individuals have been excavated so far, have been unearthed near the remains of a medieval Christian monastery in Sudan. A few of the burials contained ...

When Svetlana and her family from the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine reached the snow-covered Putna monastery in the rolling hills of northeastern Romania, they had been on the road for four ...

Students joined archaeologists in a multi-year excavation of a medieval monastery in England. Screengrab from University of Reading's Facebook post In 2021, archaeologists searching the bank of the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a cemetery with 50 sets of human remains at a medieval monastery, among other rare finds. A team of researchers and students from the University of Reading made the ...

The main Cuxa Cloister is more elaborate than its medieval archetype but follows the same four-square layout. Enclosed and hidden gardens have always appealed to me as spaces sheltered from the stormy ...

Monks likely used the disc-shaped gaming board to play Hnefatafl, a Norse strategy game that pits a king and his defenders against two dozen attackers, during the 7th or 8th century Michael Sharpe/The ...