In his 1,500-page manifesto, confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik claimed allegiance to a resurrected version of the Knights Templar, a medieval formation of Christian soldiers who ...

They were known as the keepers of the Holy Grail, a sometimes mysterious band of religious warriors whose exploits across Europe and the Middle East have inspired modern-day conspiracy theories and ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Eco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”) and Ken Follett (“The Pillars of the Earth”) ...

Fables of the Knights Templar are legend, but deep beneath a castle on Cyprus -- an island once owned by the Crusader brotherhood -- lies a legacy historians say still resonates today. Down steep, ...

The Knights Templar were warrior monks bound by strict vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, yet they became one of the ...

The aura of the warrior monks who founded the Knights Templar nearly 900 years ago has stirred controversy and fed the appetite of conspiracy theorists for years. In Dan Brown’s 2003 novel, “The Da ...

The Knights Templar were created in 1120 by roughly a dozen knights following the First Crusade, which left the area now known as Israel quite hazardous for Christians who fought Muslim armies for ...

If there were ever such a thing as a post-truth era, it began 710 years ago, at dawn on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307, in the kingdom of France. Yet of course, as the ancients knew, there is no new thing ...

Hollywood's long known there's a great story in the medieval Knights Templar. "There were only around for a couple of hundred years but they were very big in terms of helping pilgrims to get to the ...

CHICAGO — The aura of the warrior monks who founded the Knights Templar nearly 900 years ago has stirred controversy and fed the appetite of conspiracy theorists for years. In Dan Brown’s 2003 novel ...