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 ...

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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece -- The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a ...

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Discover the story of Westminster Abbey’s Benedictine monastery, from the arrival of the first twelve monks in 960 AD to its dramatic dissolution under Henry VIII in 1540. On this 90-minute journey ...

When 75-year-old Svetlana and her family from the city of Krivoy Rog in central Ukraine reached the snow-covered Putna Monastery in the rolling hills of northeastern Romania, they had been on the road ...

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a handful of 500-year-old gold coins buried among the ruins of a medieval monastery. Known as Himmelpforten, the Augustinian Hermit monastery housed monks from ...

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Archaeologists have discovered the foundations of a major medieval tannery at a former monastery in northern England. National Trust Image Monastic religious communities are generally perceived as ...

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 ...