This icon was made over 500 years after this event, when the shrunken Byzantine Empire was under the threat of invasion by the Ottoman Turks. What role did icons play in the Byzantine Empire?

An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ ... Church officially ruled that sacred images, or icons, were essential to that faith.

Paintbrush and palette in hand, the Serbian Orthodox priest filled virtually every square inch of interior wall and ceiling with icons ... figures in the timeless Byzantine style, drawing the ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by ... with the iconoclasts believing that all religious images and icons went against the correct doctrine. Starting in 726 CE under Emperor ...

Archaeologists found missing pieces of a sixth century vessel from the famed Sutton Hoo site, as well as the cremated human remains and other objects it once held.

The Byzantine Empire lasted from around the split of the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western Empires in 395 until its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. “The archaeological discovery is ...

A team of archaeologists, volunteers and conservators unearthed additional fragments of a Byzantine bucket at Sutton ... from a part of the Byzantine Empire called Antioch, located in modern ...

This icon was made over 500 years after this event, when the shrunken Byzantine Empire was under the threat of invasion by the Ottoman Turks. What role did icons play in the Byzantine Empire?