Christian monks (derived from the Greek root monos, or "single") first began forming collective refuges, or monasteries, in the Egyptian desert in the fourth century. The practice spread across ...

But now with the help of modern multispectral imaging technology ... that had been overwritten by thirteenth-century Christian monks. He contacted the team decoding the Archimedes Palimpsest ...

It was made at the beginning of the ninth century, probably by Celtic Christian monks on the island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. The manuscript consists of the four Christian gospels ...