Contemplation is a key element in most religious practices and in Catholicism it can be especially serene. Evensong is known as Vespers in the Roman Catholic tradition, a time of prayers, hymns, ...

The room was hidden from view after a 17th-century bombing destroyed part of the building.

NEW YORK — Filed away at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are documents with photographs showing the condition of the objects in the Met’s collection, and not just the Van Goghs and the Vermeers. The ...

TINMEL, Morocco (AP) — The hand-carved domes and brick-laid arches had almost all been put back together when an earthquake shook Morocco so violently that they caved in on themselves and crashed to ...

Swedish archaeologists recently uncovered a 12th century grave during an archaeological dig – and found buried treasure along with it. The Jönköping County Museum announced the find in a Mar. 27 press ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Matteo Rocca and Ronan Dunphy peered into the gloom on the second floor of the 12th century palazzo in Genoa, Italy. This had once been the grandest part of the seven-story palace, with the highest ...

In August, Peter Wittenberg was conducting construction work on his house in Klotzow, a village in northern Germany on the border with Poland, when he unearthed a strange three-foot-long granite ...

A man doing home construction in Germany has discovered a rare boulder with a 12th-century carving — a "picture stone" that may depict a Christian bishop who visited the area around 800 years ago. The ...

A recent study by Dr. Ignacio Montero-Ruiz and his colleagues examined the provenance of ancient copper artifacts discovered on the Island of Ibo off Mozambique's coast. The study, published in Azania ...

Erica Lyons, who is raising Chinese children in Hong Kong, is writing a series of children’s books about diverse Jews. TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) — Rabbi Akiva’s daughter was destined for death on her ...