Who was Byzas, the legendary Greek founder of the city of Byzantium? This article examines where he was from, what he did, ...

On February 11, Orthodox believers honor the memory of the holy martyr Vlasius, Bishop of Sebastia, the blessed Prince ...

Children younger than 6 are free for all attractions. For more information, visit the church's website.

There’s brief space given to the period after the 11th century, when “Normans” (as they were mostly known by that point) spread across southern Italy, into Byzantium and even for a time ...

During the first world war, between 660,000 and 1.2mn Armenian Christians living in Ottoman Anatolia lost their lives in massacres and death marches, with more than 22,000 bereaved children ...

Israelis had hoped against hope that the family, taken when the youngest was just nine months old, had survived their ...

This elaborate church sits on the popular piazza by the same name. The church was built in honor of St. Mark the Evangelist, whose remains were stolen in Alexandria, Egypt, by a couple crafty ...