Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle. Initially, the Israel Antiquities Authority, which oversaw the dig, reported that ...

A skeleton that was found shackled with thick mental chains and weighed down with iron plates has turned out to be female, ...

Researchers found the remains of the ascetic individual bound in chains. Small metal plates and a tiny cross were found near the abdomen of the skeleton.

But until now, the only suggestion that early Byzantine women engaged in the practice ... who had also bound themselves with chains for 42 years. But until now there had been no hard evidence ...

The suspects attacked the women, and a violent struggle ensued. One of the women was robbed of a byzantine gold chain valued ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...