(AP) – Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has claimed allegiance to the Knights Templar, which he described as a secret society created to carry out a crusade against Islam in Europe.

701 years ago, on March 18th, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was burned at the stake in France. As he died, Jacques de Molay cursed the French king who had betrayed him, and whose own ...

Few societies of yore have the historical resonance of the Knights Templar. The subject of countless novels, fiction, documentaries and myths, the Poor Knights of the Temple of King Solomon, as they ...

The Knights Templar feature prominently in Dan Brown’s bestseller “The Da Vinci Code” and video game “Assassins Creed,” but now British historian Dan Jones gives them standalone treatment in his new ...

This week pictures emerged of a stunning 700-year-old giant cave found behind a rabbit hole in the British countryside. Formed around the time of the Crusades when armies of Christians from Western ...

The warrior monks at the centre of new historical epic 'Knightfall' have fascinated us for centuries, their mysterious aura helping to fuel myriad conspiracy theories. In many of the Knights Templar ...

Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold. (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing stories that ...

In 1307, the Knights Templar, an order of military monks who had achieved great wealth and power, were ordered by the King of France to be arrested for heresy. They were tried and found guilty. Some ...

The recent discovery of Pope Clement V's absolution of heresy by the Knights Templar will do little to erase the 700 years of vilification of this Order (Vatican Proves Maltese Author Correct, October ...

Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold. (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing stories that ...