MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

A co-op action memory game set in a medieval monastic library New game from the creators of Overcrowd announced today. Blend of memory, organization, and first-person combat in a gothic setting.

NEWPORT, Wash. (FāVS News) — By some they’ve been fondly called the “nuns from Newport.” For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes have been ...

For over a thousand years, monks living in remote monasteries have consistently outlived their contemporaries by decades, and their secret wasn’t just prayer and meditation. Hidden within monastery ...

Mindfulness is mainstream. There are mindfulness retreats that will set you back thousands of dollars. Entire sections of libraries and bookstores are devoted to the subject. My kids learn mindfulness ...

Not only are libraries community hubs, havens for the written word, and accessible dens of social equity, but they also make for some incredible tourist attractions all over the world. In the United ...

Archaeologists in Germany have just discovered a handful of 500-year-old gold coins hidden in the ruins of a monastery. Archaeologists excavating a medieval monastery in Germany found four gold coins ...

Dr. Worthen is a historian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who writes frequently about higher education. Nery Rodriguez just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a ...

Father Theophilos, a Pantokrator monk, left, Byzantine scholar Yiannis Niehoff-Panagiotidis, center, and Anastassios Nikopoulos, a jurist and scientific collaborator of the Free University of Berlin, ...