Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...

The iconic Byzantine Walls of Thessaloniki, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are set to receive a stunning new lighting ...

94 1/2 x 88 5/8 inches (© RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY; photo by Hervé Lewandowski) For Eastern Christians, particularly the Greek and Russian Orthodox, the Byzantine Empire has become ...

I was in Paris during my sophomore year of college when I started reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ... of Byzantine history is not, for Ash, the final capture of the city ...

the second city of the Byzantine Empire, from the late 13th century to the early 14th centuries. For centuries, the paintings of Manuel Panselinos have been considered a high point of the ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex ...

Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof of the power and achievement of Byzantine religious art between the 4th and 15th centuries A.D. Five years ago a task force financed by ...

There’s a bit of misdirection going on with the Byzantine Crypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unlike the Temple of Dendur, which is a temple, the Crypt isn’t a crypt but a gallery ...

The frescoes were displayed in a glass-walled chapel within a stark, modern building, and the juxtaposition changed everything Peers was taught about Byzantine art. He wasn't satisfied with the ...