Europe’s cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and baptisteries cover the countryside like Veronica’s veil. They comprise the continent’s landmarks and focal attractions and, for centuries, have been ...

Greece is often celebrated for its sun-drenched islands and ancient ruins, but tucked between its olive groves and mountain villages lies another treasure: the legacy of Byzantine art and faith. The ...

The Yunus Emre Institute in Cairo (Turkish Cultural Centre) hosted a symposium and photo exhibition titled “Hagia Sophia: The Jewel of Istanbul,” highlighting the monument’s historical and cultural ...

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As I played Gorogoa I was struck by how much the visual style seemed reminiscent of key elements in the art and architecture ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, ...

The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

What is now the magnificent Fatih Mosque stands on the site of the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople's second most important church, and the burial place of Byzantine emperors for nearly 700 ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 12th-century Byzantine church built over a Roman settlement near Ahtopol on the Black Sea coast of ...

Hidden for a millennium, it took a 21st-century drought to reveal the ruins of a long-lost port city. Five years after archaeologists discovered its four-kilometer-long seawall on a polluted lake 20 ...