The City of Leeds in the U.K. recently revealed a Saxon treasure: a gilded pendant from Northumbria's Christian past, ...

The artifacts were buried in the graves of a young woman and child, who may have converted to Christianity in Africa before ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

Scans and radiographs revealed not just the break but its consequences: dense new bone formations, signs of infection, and ...

Christmas in the Middle Ages wasn’t always about peace and goodwill — and one year, things took a shockingly dark turn. In this episode, we uncover the story of the most unholy Christmas of the ...

Archaeologists excavating a burial site in Israel s Negev Desert have uncovered rare bone and ebony figurines in three early ...

The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

The city that we now know as Barcelona was initially established by the Romans in the first century B.C. They named it ...

Fundamentalism is a quintessentially American form of religious expression, but one we associate almost exclusively with ...

Black cats have been dodging bad press for centuries, thanks to a mix of old myths, historical mishaps, and modern-day biases ...

For dinner last Monday, Osama Sawarih and his family sat down to eat flatbread and a handful of rocket lettuce grown next to his tent in southern Gaza. Sawarih looked at his family with concern.

The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek history ...