Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for exhibition

Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks By Rory Carroll More than 1,000 years ago, Irish monks took precious manuscripts to the European continent to protect them from Viking raids and to spread Christianity and scholarship – a glow of culture in what would beContinue reading “Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for exhibition”

Archaeolgists Find Incredible Treasure at Ancient Pagan Cult Site

The discovery illuminates previously unknown information about the polytheistic religion. By Declan Gallagher Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands where they found a bounty of treasure. The findings were published in the journal Medieval Archaeology. According to the article, gold and silver coins located with metal detectors in theContinue reading “Archaeolgists Find Incredible Treasure at Ancient Pagan Cult Site”