Egypt has once again drawn attention from the archaeological world after researchers uncovered a large monastic complex believed to be around 1,500 years old. The site sits in the Nile Delta, a region ...

The monastic ideal is opposed to anything like a "tribal" Church. It rather models a Church able to look beyond natural affinity and sustain bonds as strong as those of kinship or marriage. The ...

Researchers described the settlement as aligned with the early traditions of Saint Anthony the Great and Saint Pachomius the Great. Archaeologists in Egypt uncovered a 5th-century structure at the ...

Darlene Brooks Hedstrom - Monks as Craftsmen in Byzantine Egypt: Exploring Monastic Fiber Arts with Augmented Reality Materiality of Monasticism: Augmented Reality and Monastic History is a research ...

But The Monastic World does have some problems. This is no sparkly, gilded history of culture and art. There’s not an illuminated manuscript in sight – no product of the monk and nuns’ many scriptoria ...

The Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran, in the north-west of the country, consists of three monastic ensembles of the Armenian Christian faith: St Thaddeus and St Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor.