Monasteries look like idyllic places where time stands still, and your soul enjoys complete peace. These stone buildings with ...

Four complete human skeletons, lavishly adorned with silk, brocade, precious stones, and intricate gold and silver filigree, have been a centuries-old, unsettling fixture at the Catholic monastery ...

Four skeletons, known as catacomb saints or Holy Bodies, have been on display for centuries at the Catholic monastery church ...

The thick monastery walls were preserved beneath rubble that collected over the centuries.

A ghoulish face and a graceful dragon decorate the broken clay tiles from the late 13th century or early 14th century. They ...

The tires buzz as the Volkswagen races over the rumble strips, my eyes scanning for radar guns and speed cameras. The relentless Washington suburban sprawl is ever-present, more highways, slap-dash ...

A man who stole 700-year-old floor tiles from a Medieval monastery when he was a child has finally returned them to English ...

After 59 years, Corpus Christi Monastery closed its doors, but the Adoratrices nuns will continue their mission in El Paso.

Editors' note, January 21, 2016: According to news reports this week, satellite images have confirmed that militants from the Islamic State destroyed Dair Mar Elia, Iraq's oldest Christian monastery. ...

On the north side of the Himalaya sits the partially reconstructed Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Rongbuk, once the largest monastic center in the region. Rongbuk is the power place through which all ...