The mystery of a relic found on a rocky slope of Grand Mesa 45 years ago took a new turn when researchers declared it not to be a piece of a cross brought by Spanish explorers. Instead, the copper ...

A well-preserved item of the sword 'Falcata ' used on the Iberian Peninsula more than 2000 years ago was confiscated by the Spanish National Police. According to police, the confiscated Falcata was ...

A team of 17 academics -- historians and archeologists, folklorists and anthropologists, geographers and geologists -- believe they are zeroing in on the holy grail of Southeastern archeology: the ...

Mexico's president has asked Spain and the Catholic Church to formally apologize for the "abuses" they committed against indigenous Mexicans about 500 years ago. "I have sent a letter to the king of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

It’s impossible to imagine Hollywood today making a blockbuster movie about a medieval Castilian knight who died in 1099, or that a U.S. president would have multiple screenings of such a film at the ...