Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being urgently removed from a medieval abbey in Hungary in a desperate bid to ...

Restorers are removing about 100.000 hand-bound books from the shelves of the medieval Benedictine abbey of Pannonhalma in ...

Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ‘world’s oldest calendar’, dating back 12,000 years. Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia in modern-day Turkey. The ...

Brazilian nun who was the world’s oldest person has died at 116 Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher, died just weeks short of turning 117.

A Brazilian nun named the world’s oldest person in early 2025 has died, according to LongeviQuest, an agency that tracks the world’s longest-living people. Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas died on ...

Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest person in the world, died Wednesday in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age of 116.

Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening, comparing the oldest available data—from 2007 or in some cases 2014—from Pew's Religious Landscape Study and its most recent, from ...

Archaeologists in the area of Ostia Antica, Italy, unearthed what may be the oldest example of a Jewish ritual bath found outside of Israel. They have tentatively dated the structure to the late ...

Biblical scholars periodically get excited when, in the sands of Egypt or the Near East, someone turns up what is called "the world's oldest Biblical text." Famed for its comparative ...

Founded more than 3,000 years ago, Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest monotheistic religions. It influenced later religions that believe in one supreme being, including Judaism, Christianity and ...