Thessaloniki's driverless metro is a kind of hop-on, hop-off museum with centuries worth of ruins along its route ...
Our final Art Deco Centenary designer profile spotlights Hildreth Meière, a pioneering muralist who left her indelible mark ...
Olympia Nelson, a Melbourne-based PhD student at the University of Sydney, discussed her research on Byzantine art, focusing on frescoes in remote churches in the Kandanou-Selinou region of Crete. She ...
The Byzantine medicine was heavily influenced by Christian values. credit: Wellcome Images/ wikimedia commons CC-BY-4.0 The Byzantine Empire is mostly known for its achievements in art and ...
But until now, the only suggestion that early Byzantine women engaged in the practice came from contemporary texts with no archaeological evidence to back up their claims. The excavation directors ...
This icon is a remarkable survival from the so-called “dark ages” of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. It is the oldest known depiction of Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns, with the names of ...
When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of rising thrones, machines and automations. Credit: Skylitzes Chronicle, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. When you think about ...
Many of the items are very appealing. A wool and linen fragment of a decorative band from Byzantine Egypt is at once simple and gorgeous. A 13th-century striped bowl from Iran is a model of ...