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

America’s Cincinnatus and America’s Michelangelo are forever connected in a fresco adorning the dome of the U.S. Capitol.

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 ...

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — Continuing an artistic tradition begun in the 3rd Century, Kim Fritzges paints early Byzantine icons in Studio 311 at the Walk In Art Center. Surrounded by sorrowful images of ...

Late antiquity was one of the most dramatic periods in our history – a turbulent time in which nations and peoples rose and fell, vying for power and territory in a merciless fight for prominence.

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 ...

Damaged Fresco of Virgin Mary, located in the damaged inner wall of the Balatlar Church. Credit: Sait Can Kutsal / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 The 700-year-old Byzantine church at the Balatlar ...

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 experimental techniques introduced during the Yassı Ada excavation in the early 1960s by a team of young archaeologists helped revolutionize a new field of study underwater. Nautical archaeologist ...

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