The National Gallery is an art museum located on Vasilisis Sofias avenue in Athens, Greece. It is devoted to Greek and ...

These were the bleak circumstances in which the icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy was painted. It shows the world of the Byzantine Empire not as it actually was, but as it needed to be if God was ...

Among the works is a rare set of icons from the 17th-century renewal of the Greek Patriarchate of Antioch, created by ...

California officials denied—and tried to hide—the first plague epidemic that reached U.S. shores Sarah Holzmann Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex ...

Foreign warriors recruited by the Byzantine Empire were initially given a suit of armor and then money to buy more armor, weapons and equipment. Elaborately decorated horse equipment, depictions ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the ... of the last progress of the sacred icons around Constantinople (Istanbul).