This 12th-century abbey features breathtaking medieval stone carvings and sculptures depicting knights and saints, yet often remains overshadowed by its famous neighbour ...

This medieval abbey boasts spectacular 13th-century stone carvings of knights and saints, but many tourists miss this national monument in favour of the Rock of Cashel ...

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

One theory suggests the infamous Roman emperor survived an assassination attempt in the tunnel now open to the public.

At an hour when Ahmad and Mohammed should have been in the classroom, the two brothers sat idle at home in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The 10-year-old twins are part of a generation ...

The marble used for both the statues and the Duomo itself comes from the quarries of Candoglia in Italy’s Piedmont region.

This spectacular work of medieval art imagines Christ's side as a vulva—and is now on view at the Met Cloisters, ...

It was only by walking, by travelling at the natural human pace, that small, surprising details – a tombstone, an information sign hidden in the reeds, the strange clank of a gate, the December sun ...

Israel has taken steps ‌to help settlers acquire land in the occupied West Bank and widen its powers in parts of the territory where Palestinians have some self-rule - measures they said aimed to ...

The sword was discovered during archaeological excavations in Nördlingen, a town in the Donau-Ries district of Swabia, Bavaria. The weapon, which dates to the middle Bronze Age, is so remarkably ...

In Argenteuil, Val-d’Oise, visitors can explore the remains of the Abbey of Notre-Dame within an excavated archaeological garden. Discovered at the end of the 20th century and protected as a ...

The Stary Ladoga City Museum in Russia’s Leningrad region announced Thursday the discovery of 23 silver coins dating to the Arab ...