For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

The street co-naming honors the life of the Zen master who once lived and studied on the same block of West 109th Street.

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Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

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Germans don't export white asparagus, they eat it all themselves, but they do import it from countries like Spain or Italy, ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a ...

Chanel’s signature monochrome palette — the brand’s emblematic black and white — also seems to echo the visual simplicity of ...

The 3-year-old discovered a scarab amulet dating to the Middle Bronze era during an outing in central Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. A senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said ...