In his 1,500-page manifesto, confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik claimed allegiance to a resurrected version of the Knights Templar, a medieval formation of Christian soldiers who ...

They were known as the keepers of the Holy Grail, a sometimes mysterious band of religious warriors whose exploits across Europe and the Middle East have inspired modern-day conspiracy theories and ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Eco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”) and Ken Follett (“The Pillars of the Earth”) ...

Fables of the Knights Templar are legend, but deep beneath a castle on Cyprus -- an island once owned by the Crusader brotherhood -- lies a legacy historians say still resonates today. Down steep, ...

MORELIA, Mexico – Patterned after the most famous of the medieval Western Christian military orders, a drug cartel in Mexico, calling itself the Knights Templar, is publicly appealing to Mexicans ...

The aura of the warrior monks who founded the Knights Templar nearly 900 years ago has stirred controversy and fed the appetite of conspiracy theorists for years. In Dan Brown’s 2003 novel, “The Da ...

CHICAGO — The aura of the warrior monks who founded the Knights Templar nearly 900 years ago has stirred controversy and fed the appetite of conspiracy theorists for years. In Dan Brown’s 2003 novel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did this seal symbolize the order's poverty, homosexuality or companionship with Christ? Hinterkappelen/Wikimedia Commons, CC ...

Hollywood's long known there's a great story in the medieval Knights Templar. "There were only around for a couple of hundred years but they were very big in terms of helping pilgrims to get to the ...