In the middle of the sixth century, the Byzantine Empire extended to almost the entire Mediterranean region. The exhibits in the Museum of Byzantine Art are correspondingly diverse. Works and everyday ...

In 2021, he posted “I love Art Deco” on then-Twitter. In July 2023, nine months after he acquired the social-media platform, he gave it a distinctly late-1920s rebrand.

Still, says Ash, Byzantine builders were actually more interested in a "dazzling illumination," now lost to us under layers of time and dirt.

Zwenigorodskoi’s name has become as synonymous with the catalogue of his collection as with the enamels it documented. Though little is known about him personally, it’s believed that a trip to Spain ...

Organised in tandem with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it attracted large crowds last year, the show opens with a Byzantine icon, the kind of hyper-stylised Greek Orthodox ...

AMMAN — Cities like Gadara (Umm Qais) and Gerasa (Jerash) were part of the pottery trade/production network in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. Four types of fine pottery could be assigned: The ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8, 1404 – May 29, 1453), dubbed the last Christian ...

A monastery with a colorful mosaic floor and a Greek inscription, a sophisticated winepress and other buildings were discovered in Israel in an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority, ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8, 1404 – May 29, 1453), dubbed the last Christian ...

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI Palaiologos. This valuable work was uncovered ...

Panselinos has long been considered one of the great Byzantine artists of the 14th century. His true identity, however, had long been lost.

Justinian, one of the greatest Byzantine Emperors. Credit: Carole Raddato, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 The current national identity of Greece is significantly affected by the Byzantine past of its ...