A decade after archaeologists first set out to find the long-lost Scottish monastery where the Book of Deer was written, they've had their biggest breakthrough yet. The Book of Deer is an illuminated ...
One of the earliest books in existence is expected to fetch upwards of $2.6m when it goes up for auction later this year. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, which was written in Coptic on papyrus in Egypt, is ...
Catholic clergy lamented the destruction of Iraq's oldest Christian monastery, St. Elijah, and urged the international community to do more to stop such assaults. "I had the same emotional and perhaps ...
The Obama Administration and the Vatican condemned the Islamic State group Wednesday for razing Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery, a 1400-year-old structure that survived assaults by nature and man ...
The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State group's relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. For 1,400 years the ...
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