2006-10-08 04:00:00 PDT Mount Athos, Greece-- Welcome to the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos. Please set your calendar back a thousand years. Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts at ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

Bob Simon gets rare access to Mount Athos, a remote peninsula in northern Greece that is the spiritual capital of Orthodox Christianity. For more than a thousand years, monks on Mount Athos have lived ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Brother Job twists and jiggles the big brass key and eases open the charnel house door. My eyes struggle in the dimness, and I blink in ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. On a mist-shrouded peninsula east of Thessaloniki is a place where time has stalled and ...

Visitors to the Holy Community of Mount Athos, on a hilly, heavily forested peninsula in northeast Greece, will have to do without radio, television or newspapers. Nor are they likely to see paved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a monastery on Greece's Mount Athos, Father Makarios is reading the gospel as he waits for his vaccination. A drive is on to ...

Josh Jeter, a young Lutheran Presbyterian, spends ten days on pilgrimage among the Orthodox monks of Mount Athos. You can’t read his entire long essay, most of which is paywalled, but you can read a ...

On this Easter Sunday, we're going to take you to a place outside our world. It's not Mars or Venus but it might as well be. It's a remote peninsula in northern Greece that millions believe to be the ...