The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Mike Davis By Mike Davis BN History Columnist Howdy neighbor! Some time ago, while digging around in the old papers and local history reports of No ...