THE medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

Deep beneath a mountain, hundreds of centrifuges were kept safe, used for enriching Iran's uranium that Israel suspects is destined for a nuclear weapon. The Fordow plant was protected by tonnes ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered "sensational" 18th-century heraldic tiles beneath a Polish monastery, featuring rare glazed designs with bishop's coat of arms dating from 1711-1730.

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Monte Cassino was a mountain monastery and therefore a strategic point for the Nazi forces from where the entire southern plain was observable and it needed to be taken. From February 1944 four major ...