Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being ...

Greece’s Culture Ministry, in cooperation with the Epirus Region and the Municipality of Arta, launched the process to restore the historic Church of ...

An ancient Christian monastic complex was recently uncovered in Egypt — shedding new light on monastic life in Upper Egypt during the Byzantine era. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

BYZANTINE RITE CATHOLICS. The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church resulted from efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Eastern Orthodox Christians in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire during the ...

While high-stakes museum robberies might be a crime traditionally confined to film, sometimes these high culture heists make their way into real life. Though most of these bold break-ins end in total ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a painting of the face of Jesus Christ from the Byzantine period. The find is exciting experts, who believe that the discovery can help us to understand Early ...

Byzantine Fault Tolerance ensures crypto systems run despite some nodes failing or being deceptive. It is critical for blockchains, helping them function even with sabotaged or faulty nodes. Investors ...

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 ...

Jennifer Ball and her book "Byzantine Dress: A Guide." (Photo credit: Alex Irklievski) Ball edited the volume and wrote two chapters, drawing on her expertise in Byzantine art and material culture.

1 Department of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany 2 ArchDepth Research Group, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, ...

The Moslem followers of Mohammed the Conqueror who triumphantly stormed Constantinople in 1453 were so successful in covering up all traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries Byzantine art ...