Excavation at the historic church restored ancient wall paintings inspired by the Bible and the Torah, preserving a beautiful past for people.

This talk explores how Byzantium operates as a queer cipher in modern culture, appearing as an adjectival modifier, “the Byzantine,” rather than as a distinct historical referent. Analyzing Gore Vidal ...

This is an archaeological-tourism initiative led by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, taking place as part of the ...

Restored 700-year-old Byzantine church in Sinop, Turkey unveils wall paintings, linking to Greek Orthodox heritage.

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

The Byzantine Empire, often overshadowed by its predecessor, the Roman Empire, and its successor, the Ottoman Empire, was a remarkable civilization that spanned over a millennium. Its contributions to ...

Archaeologists found 97 gold coins and jewelry in Susita, revealing life during the Sassanid invasions. Archaeologists ...

Archaeologists in Israel uncovered a 1,400-year-old Byzantine gold hoard at Hippos, the ancient Greek city in Galilee.

Congratulations to my dear friend Sharon Gerstel, an art history professor at University of California at Los Angeles, on her Runciman Award, which she just got for her book, "Rural Lives and ...

In 1907 about 18 young men, heads of their households and all under 30 years old, gathered to start a church in Northeast Minneapolis. Ethnic Rusins, they had emigrated from an east European region ...