Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...

Greek minuscule reshaped Byzantine writing, preserving ancient knowledge and influencing the evolution of modern Greek script ...

There may be a room with the rarest books in the world somewhere under Moscow. We are discussing ancient Chinese texts. Lost ...

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

Back in 1972, when the esteemed art historian Michael Baxandall first laid out his revolutionary idea of the “period eye” in Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, he pointed out how much ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the purpose of a mysterious 1,500-year-old bucket at one of England's most historic sites – and it wasn't pleasant. The National Trust released a statement about the ...

To improve understanding of variation of Earth's rotation in the 4th--7th centuries CE, a research team analyzed Byzantine records from this period to identify total solar eclipses around the Eastern ...

As I played Gorogoa I was struck by how much the visual style seemed reminiscent of key elements in the art and architecture ...

A fifth-century Christian mosaic was unearthed in Urfa, Turkey, the traditional birthplace of Abraham, shedding light on ...

Imagine coordinating a worldwide virtual concert with musicians scattered across the globe. Some have unstable internet connections, others misread the sheet music, and others might even intentionally ...