It features mosaics, icons and wall frescoes representing some of early Christianity's finest ... by archaeologists as a rare work of art that had survived iconoclasm - where use of religious images ...

The eastern Basalt Desert was a home of a “very intensive” Christian graffiti production during first three centuries AD. Syrian-Jordanian desert was the frontier between the Roman Empire and ...

About Dr. Angelov’s current book project is a comparative study of late-antique and early-medieval elite conversions to Byzantine Christianity. Between 300 and 900, the Byzantine missionaries reached ...

Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. It has a unique collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments. All eight buildings ...

NICOSIA (Reuters) - A museum that opened this week in Cyprus showcases priceless early ... work of art that had survived iconoclasm - where use of religious images was banned by Byzantine emperors ...