Excavations of an ancient Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of Fournoi near Samos, Greece are bringing new finds onto the ...

Wars have shaped history for centuries, with some lasting generations, redefining borders, cultures, and power struggles that ...

In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

In that period, trade interconnectedness was stronger with Asia Minor and Cyprus than with Tunisia and Egypt ... and though a good local economy throughout the late Roman and Byzantine periods in the ...

In that period, trade interconnectedness was stronger with Asia Minor and Cyprus than with Tunisia ... local economy ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often self-inflicted.

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the remains of a nun who practised an extreme form of asceticism. Dubbed “The Nun of ...

The research (Sexing remains of a Byzantine ascetic burial using enamel ... spreading through Asia Minor and Europe, and eventually reaching Jerusalem and Egypt. Excavation Directors Zubair ...

But until now, the only suggestion that early Byzantine women engaged in the ... in northern Syria and Anatolia before spreading to Asia Minor and later reaching Italy, France and England.

The main church of the Gelati Monastery is the only Medieval monument in the larger historic region of Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus that still has well-preserved mosaic decoration, comparable ...

It wanted to occupy Mesopotamia, reach Asia Minor and eventually defeat the Byzantine Empire and be the super power. To reach that goal, it planned to convert all neighboring peoples to ...