Archaeologists uncovered eerie alignments, vanished rituals, and treasures once condemned as "the devil’s money"—all buried ...

Explore Bern, Switzerland’s picturesque capital nestled within a curve of the Aare River. Founded in 1191 by Duke Berthold V of Zähringen, the city’s old town showcases medieval sandstone buildings ...

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

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

Castle Otttis (yes, with three T’s) rises from the coastal Florida landscape like a medieval mirage – a stone fortress that seems to have materialized from the mists of ancient Ireland. Medieval ...

Using a mallet and chisel — and techniques that would be instantly familiar to masons working centuries ago — Freya de Lisle ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Shroud of Turin, a 4-meter (13-foot) long linen cloth said to bear the imprint of Christ's body, has divided opinions for centuries. A recent discovery sheds new light on its turbulent history, ...

One of the most powerful pieces of the medieval Christian toolkit was the claiming and repurposing of sacred pagan sites. Cathedrals, chapels and shrines were frequently built where polytheistic pagan ...