Dozens of people’s lives were at stake. God calls Abram in faith to pick up and leave “your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you” (12:1).

An excursion down a forgotten staircase in a 12 th century French church resulted not only in a lost burial vault, but in a trip back in time to the sixth century. The discovery was part of a ...

The Art Institute of Chicago announced on Monday that it is returning a 12th-century sculpture titled "Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda" to Nepal after new research found that the ...

The Art Institute has repatriated other objects in recent months. Last summer, the museum announced that it would be returning a 12-century fragment of a pilaster to Thailand.

Restoration efforts at the Church of Saint Philibert in France led to the discovery of a forgotten staircase and a 400-year-old burial vault.