Ahead of construction in Northern Ireland, a team of archaeologists conducted a “very complex” excavation. “Looking at the site before we started, it was clear that this was an area that could have ...

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 ...

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could ...

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could ...

DUBLIN, IRELAND—BBC News reports that the skeletal remains of some 100 people have been unearthed in Dublin at the site of St. Mary’s Abbey, a large, wealthy medieval Christian institution run by the ...

Nestled between Lyon and Grenoble in southeastern France, Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye is famed for its Gothic abbey, cobblestone streets, and centuries-old stone houses. The medieval gem was recently ...

Discover the story of Westminster Abbey’s Benedictine monastery, from the arrival of the first twelve monks in 960 AD to its dramatic dissolution under Henry VIII in 1540. On this 90-minute journey ...

Archaeologists discovered 146 skeletons at the site of what was once a medieval church’s cemetery in Northern Ireland. Photo from Gahan and Long Archaeological Services Ahead of construction in ...