This clock is a digital representation of an ancient numeral system used by 13th century Cistercian monks before the Indo-Arabic system that we know and love today took over. It’s a compact ...

With its church, cloister, refectory, sleeping quarters, bakery and ironworks, it is an excellent illustration of the ideal of self-sufficiency as practised by the earliest communities of Cistercian ...

Casino gambling is illegal in the state of Texas, and research confirms that this is for good reason. It is not within the ...

At La Coulée de Serrant, Nicolas Joly has become renowned for his pedagogical approach to biodynamics and his contrarian ...

Today’s Bygone Burnley episode sees us venture out of the borough and into the Ribble Valley and the historic Whalley Abbey.

Its construction was first undertaken in the Middle Ages by Cistercian monks, and it was then developed on a vast scale from the end of the 16th century until the 19th century. It is made up of an ...

Cistercian monks lived in the Maulbronn monastery in the Middle Ages. Today the former abbey is one of the best-preserved monastery complexes north of the Alps and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.