A new investigation could end many of the speculations about the works of El Greco and the man himself. A hand-written annotation to a book, similar to the glosses of Saint Emilianus, found in Spain ...

SIX miles west of Athens, where once stood a temple to laurel-crowned Apollo, is the domed Monastery of Daphni, whose fine mosaics were neglected for 700 years and are now recognized as a peak of 12th ...

Think of Byzantium, and a color leaps to mind. That color is gold. The empire ruled from the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea for a thousand years between AD 324 and its final ...

An unlikely partnership between a Greek monk and a court handwriting expert has revealed the identity of a celebrated Byzantine painter who worked in Thessaloniki, the second city of the Byzantine ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece -- Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle -- the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle — the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who ...