Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man stands at St Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula. --/dpa St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in ...

Trabzon, Turkey (CNN) — If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th century CE by some of the earliest ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of ...

A former monastery in Tuscany, Italy, from the 8th century—making it the region’s oldest surviving abbey—is now on the market, according to Lionard Luxury Real Estate. Located outside Siena, about 45 ...

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