Asceticism in Christianity as practiced for centuries can comprise an array of devotional practices from fasting to ...

A grant enabling a team of University of Alabama researchers to work on a digital restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral was cut ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Exhibition running in the French capital until November presents around 100 archaeological masterpieces illuminating Gaza’s ...

Not limited to the confines of the Byzantine Empire itself, the architecture of this enigmatic civilization made a significant impression on its Islamic and European contemporaries. In particular, ...

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For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

Credit: John William Waterhouse, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Though Christianity would later downplay the significance of pagan dream books, Artemidorus’s influence lingered subtly. His rational ...

Discover Tunisia's magnificent Roman ruins—as impressive as Italy's—where you can wander undisturbed among temples and ...

The Lost Town of Newtown Jerpoint was founded by either Earl Marshal or Griffin Fitzwilliam in the 12th Century, just west of ...

"One of the goals of the exhibit is to leave something behind in the communities,”' art dealer Bruce Ferrini says ... their own collection of antiquities and manuscripts from the early Christian years ...

While the papacy is often associated with Rome, history reveals that several Popes had Greek roots—three confirmed and as ...