Great Art Explained began in May 2020 with the simple premise that great art can be explained clearly and concisely in 15 ...

Houston’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, one of the largest Greek Orthodox communities in the nation, expects to cover each of its walls with colorful Byzantine iconography by the year 2027, ...

A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...

​A remarkable 1,000-year-old artefact has been discovered at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, by Federica Gigante, a historian from the University of Cambridge. It may not ...

A stunning Byzantine-era mosaic has been unveiled to the public for the first time, offering a glimpse into life in the Negev ...

But something remarkable is happening in rural Alabama, where a plantation from 1841 is being reimagined not as a monument to the past, but as a space for reparative history and healing.

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Italy's new national Library of Archaeology and Art History, currently under construction in Rome, will offer free guided tours ahead of its scheduled opening late next year. The tours of Palazzo San ...

The tranquil halls of Zeyrek Cinili Hamam in Istanbul instinctively invite a sense of reflection and renewal, as the incredible history of this recently restored 500-year-old, once-again-functional ...

Due to its extensive trade routes and colonial holdings, Antwerp in the 1500s was inundated with goods — ill-gotten and otherwise — from across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.

It stands today as a rich source of ancient and Byzantine history and life, although not every article is of equal quality, judging by our modern standards, and it is an “uncritical” compilation of ...

Was Byzantine Liquid Fire a State Secret? Some historians believe the reason the recipe for liquid fire remains unknown is because Byzantine emperors wanted to keep it a state secret, never to fall ...