Dating back to the 12th century, this medieval monastery in Ireland boasts spectacular stone sculptures depicting knights, saints and animals ...
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12 majestic medieval Christian monasteries

There’s something unforgettable about medieval monasteries: they weren’t just places of worship—they were fortresses of faith ...
A jaw-dropping medieval property is on the real estate market in England, offering a pastoral life to interested buyers – but there's a catch. The property, called St. John's Jerusalem, was originally ...
A decade-long excavation project uncovered around 120,000 artifacts at a medieval monastery, a book has revealed. Rushen Abbey was founded as a Cistercian monastery in A.D. 1134 on the Isle of Man—a ...
A history buff with a metal detector recently led archaeologists to the site of a medieval monastery – all thanks to a strange symbol spotted on an old map. Arkeologerna, an archaeological ...
A jaw-dropping medieval property is on the real estate market in England, offering a pastoral life to interested buyers – but there’s a catch. The property, called St. John’s Jerusalem, was originally ...
A medieval monastery that has stood for nearly 900 years has been partially submerged after violent storms sent rivers surging across northern Spain. Photos show muddy floodwater filling the ...
In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries ...
The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.