Archaeologists uncovered a 12th-century Byzantine church built over a Roman settlement near Ahtopol on the Black Sea coast of ...

Fragments of small bronze and bone sculptures, segments of textiles with hunting scenes and delicate designs, household items such as lamps, and pieces of delicate jewelry illuminate not only the ...

HENRY MAGUIRE AND EUNICE DAUTERMAN MAGUIRE Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 223 pp.; 8 color ills., 150 b/w. $49.50 For decades, ...

Hotels ranked on industry awards, guest reviews and hotel class ratings Unbiased content created by U.S. News editors Photo tours of select hotels by local experts Navigate forward to interact with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Byzantion is an international peer reviewed journal founded in 1924; it is devoted to Byzantine culture and covers literature, ...

In 1997, an exhibition entitled 'Treasures of Mount Athos' was organized at the Byzantine Culture Museum in Thessaloniki. Among these treasures were post-Byzantine icons that required thinning of ...

The domestic quarters of the Byzantines have not fared well over the ages. Whether due to the ravages of time or the activities of modern archaeologists, or both, the original form and appearance of ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Emperor, was loaded. He sent a bunch of expensive gifts to the Abbasid Caliph, and his own throne was solid gold with golden ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition ...

While winter's last clammy smogs hover over Cambridge Common, the first heat of spring is bringing out fruit blossoms at the southernmost of the University's U.S. study centers the Dumbarton Oaks ...

In the midst of the Third Crusade, a surprising alliance emerged between Saladin and a rebel Byzantine noble—Isaac Komnenos ...