A pair of 1,500-year-old lady's sandals with a message in Greek was discovered during a dig in Constantinople, today's ...

Like the Anglo-Saxons consider Friday the 13th a bad luck day, Greeks have branded Tuesday the 13th as a day you'd rather ...

Fusing Eastern and Greco-Roman influences, Mucha’s life-size decorative portrait-poster—illustrated with golden mosaics, sinuous arabesques, flora and fauna—idealized and eroticized Bernhardt as a ...

Palestinian village is actually a Byzantine period synagogueDavid Cohen/Flash90 An article about a new book on "Palestinian history and culture," published in The Guardian, embarrassingly used a ...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed parts of a Roman and Byzantine settlement just outside the modern city of Kiryat Gat. The researchers believe the settlement was ...

A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI Palaiologos. This valuable work was uncovered ...

Panselinos is seen as bringing greater attention to perspective and human expression to Byzantine art ... was the presence of painted illustrations that showed the full moon.

The site is known for the Byzantine monastic complex with a basilical church dedicated to St Lot, mentioned in the Bible, flanked by a large reservoir to the south and a refectory and pilgrim’s hotel ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval house that contained even older gold coins, which date to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great. When you purchase through ...

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