The charity’s mounting financial pressures could lead to job cuts and site closures, sparking concern over the erasure of ...

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...

After a week of illness, heading out into the Sunday afternoon cold and rain was not something I was overjoyed to undertake.

In light of a number of academics and museum professionals questioning Iona as the origin of the Book of Kells, a medieval monastery in Scotland’s Tarbat peninsula is gaining researchers attention as ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Hindu pitcher festival, begins Monday in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj. Officials expect at least 400 million people to visit Prayagraj over the next 45 days.

and other pilgrims at the confluence of three sacred rivers that dates to at least medieval times. Hindus believe that the mythical Saraswati river once flowed from the Himalayas through Prayagraj, ...

What happened when monks had to be celibate? Historian Katherine Harvey reveals all. Show more What happened when medieval monks were told by the church that they had to be celibate? And how did ...