Rating: 6|Votes: 20

Tsar Nicholas II and St. Tikhon of Moscow make Forbes’ list of most influential Russians of 20th century

Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II, and Patriarchs St. Tikhon of Moscow, Sergius (Stragorodsky), and Alexey II, and Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh have been included in Forbes magazine’s list of the 100 most influential Russians of the 20th century.

Rating: 9|Votes: 1

11th century Georgian king's grave discovered at ancient monastery

The discovered burial place features an epitaph bearing the name of King Kvirike, which historians believe refers to Kvirike III, also known as Kvirike the Great of the Kakheti-Hereti Kingdom.

Rating: 9.3|Votes: 11

Wooden cell dating to time of St. Columba discovered on Iona

The wood samples were originally discovered in 1957 by archaeologist Dr. Charles Thomas, but carbon dating was only just emerging at the time and an expensive process. The find wound up in matchboxes in the scientist’s garage in Cornwall, although the excavators always believed they belonged to the cell of St. Columba.

Rating: 2.5|Votes: 17

How the Middle Ages Really Were

There are many historical myths about the Medieval Period. This is partly due to the rise of Humanism in the early Modern Period and the Renaissance movement in art and architecture.

Rating: 9.8|Votes: 5

Athos and Tabor

Archimandrite Emilian (Vafidis)

Throughout the centuries, on the eve of the Transfiguration many monks leave the Great Lavra with pack animals loaded with provisions, vestments, and church vessels, and climb to the top of Mt. Athos, 2033 meters above sea level, higher than the clouds, where there is a tiny chapel of the Transfiguration of the Lord.