Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem just concluded their second season of excavations at Hyrcania, where ...

Archaeologists believed they had unearthed the remains of a Byzantine monk buried beneath an ancient monastery in Jerusalem.

The pagoda is also the long-lost, earliest surviving Christian monastery in China, called Da Qin. Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the origin of Christianity, and how the religion’s past ...

Bobbio Abbey “had one of the greatest libraries of all the monasteries in the Middle Ages,” says Lauren Mancia, a historian of medieval Christian devotional practices at Brooklyn College in New York.

Christian monks (derived from the Greek root monos, or "single") first began forming collective refuges, or monasteries, in the Egyptian desert in the fourth century. The practice spread across ...

including new insights into how the literature of Christian monks made its way into Jewish thought. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, a scholar of rabbinic Judaism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ...

The Irish Christian communities were not strangers to attacks and raids from local gangs. However, it has been suggested that the monks wrote more about the Viking raids because the Scandinavians ...