"Our job as Catholics is not to make the world look Catholic but to see the world as Catholics — with the universality that ...

A pair of 1,500-year-old lady's sandals with a message in Greek was discovered during a dig in Constantinople, today's ...

Dear all who shared a glimpse of their mothers on Sunday, Scrolling through an endless gallery of mothers' portraits is deeply moving. Each shared photo is not just a tribute to an individual mother, ...

The Norwalk Art Space has selected four Connecticut-based artists for its 2026-27 Resident Artist Program, the organization ...

Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer The classicist and historian Averil Cameron, who has died aged 86, reshaped our ...

Dated to the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods (fifth to seventh century CE), the church is the sixth to be discovered at the site. A 1,400-year-old church was recently discovered by archaeologists ...

Alchemy and the search for the philosopher’s stone. Copper engraving by J. Ch. Schellenberg. Public Domain Alchemy in Byzantine times was far from a marginal pursuit; it represented a long-standing ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

I was in Paris during my sophomore year of college when I started reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I made my way through the first volume, immersed in the decadence of the late ...