During a recent excavation in the United Arab Emirates, archeologists unearthed a 1,400-year-old plaster cross. This exciting discovery has helped to prove the long-held theory that the dwellings that ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of ...

In the sixth century, Christian monks built St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The monastery is believed to be located at the very place where God appeared to Moses via a burning ...

Egypt began to transition to Christianity shortly after the turn of the first century C.E., and by the fifth century, it was a hub of Coptic art and culture. A Coptic monastery discovered at the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SINIYAH ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (AP) — ...