Archaeologists recently uncovered rare artifacts from an ancient African Christian community in Israel, revealing a glimpse ...

This is evident from the life of Archbishop Theophan of Poltava, an outstanding hierarch and pillar of the Church in our own day, who was like unto the early desert-fathers in his resolute struggle ...

For Antony and other early monks, sex represented social entanglement. But engagement with the world could take on more sinister aspects. For Antony and the other desert fathers, sexual sin was ...

The ancient Egyptian fortress was in use around 2,000 years ago in the Sinai Desert.

It’s much easier to survive in the desert now, with modern conveniences like houses and bottled water, but it took much more of an effort for our early ancestors. Many researchers believe that it was ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent. Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near ...

Peruvian researchers have discovered a trove of ancient sea mammal fossils in the desert. Among the find is a whale, thought to be around 40 million years old and not previously known to have ...