The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

More specifically, the DNA still contained in the book binding allowed researchers to narrow their search to harbor and harp seal populations from Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland ...

The Greek discovery of Iceland prior to the Vikings is supported by new evidence published in The Housman Society Journal.

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

Booker Prize-winner SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA went on a European cruise expecting opulence, kitsch and packaged fun, but found two ...

and it’s over a century old. Built in 1922, the former Holy Cross Catholic Church still sits on its original foundation. It is often the subject of area photographers and has been well-loved and ...

The language underwent many variations – Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, and Late Egyptian until its last phase, the Coptic alphabet. As the language evolved, it became more widely spoken by the common ...