Archaeologists have uncovered part of a cemetery, including 1,000-year-old human skeletons, near the remains of a fortified ...

Here you sing these Psalms every day, yet on Good Friday you go out and you beat up your Jewish neighbors,” Roger Wieck, of ...

As a symbol, the Moon did not have an easily decipherable meaning – which encouraged medieval people to read it in playful ...

A self-styled order of “cannabis nuns” in California, known as the Sisters of the Valley, is fighting to keep its mission ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), ...

In the 7th century, England stood at a crossroads — torn between the old gods of its ancestors and the rising tide of ...

The Belial stool by Studio S II, in steel and leather, draws inspiration from the Savonarola chair, an X-frame design popular in medieval Italy. “Gothic arches, sharp spikes and oxblood leather ...

Katherine Kelaidis is a research associate at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in the United Kingdom and the author of Holy Russia? Holy War?: Why the Russian Church Is Backing Putin ...

Good day, my lord! How fare thee? And how art thou cat? He is looking rather fluffy this morning, if I may be so bold as to ...

The legend of King Solomon’s gold is being redefined as new evidence points to copper, not gold, as the foundation of his ...

Yakutiye Madrasa, Erzurum. Central muqarnas, Islamic ornamental three-dimensional architectural decoration, embellishing a church ceiling, 1310. Credit: Richard Piran McClary Coptic capital with ...

Ceramic vessels originating in the Islamic world once adorned the facades of churches and other Christian monuments, while Christian symbols such as the cross embellished columns, slabs, and other ...