This impossibly intricate cathedral hosts a number of divine relics and tombs, including the Shrine of the Three Kings, a gold reliquary said to hold the bones of the Magi, and the tombs of medieval ...

As I write this, the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris is burning . Begun in 1160, completed a century later, the church survived the Reformation, the French Revolution and the Nazis. Now, its roof has ...

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Jenny Alexander has received funding from: Regional government of Galicia, Spain, to cover expenses for working on a historical survey of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, 2008-13, also from ...

The blaze that destroyed Notre Dame de Paris in 2019, the earthquake that destroyed the basilica of L'Aquila in 2009, or the current devastating war going on in Ukraine – the fragility of historic ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...