Archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old monastery near Israel with an intricate mosaic floor that features a Bible verse blessing all who read it. At the center of the intricately designed ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a significant Christian monastery dating back to roughly 1,500 years ago at a site in Israel. The remains include a remarkable colorful mosaic floor ...

The Dominican nuns who moved away from Lancaster County last year were back Friday to visit their old monastery and attend a ceremony at the new resting place for the nuns previously buried on the ...

The old text isn’t entirely gone ... So far the imaging has revealed some 6,800 hidden pages in 74 of the monastery’s 163 recycled parchments, called palimpsests. “We have identified ...

The 65-year-old Augustinian friar and his three fellow monks, who have dedicated their lives to silent prayer inside Florence’s Santo Spirito monastery, are preparing to go into battle over ...

The authorities said that thousands of buildings had been damaged, including about 150 mosques and pagodas.

The 200-year-old Rangdum Monastery is situated in the most isolated part of the Suru Valley in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. A prominent centre of Tibetan Budhism, the monastery is part of ...