Of the places he had shown me, that was the one that stuck, and some months later, when we began planning a family trip, I ...

Built between the 9th and 7th centuries BC, the Fortress of Van overlooks the modern-day city of the same name and the ruins ...

With an exhibition now extended through December, the Arab World Institute hosts 130 ancient objects stranded in Europe for years, as others remain threatened by war in the coastal enclave ...

Urfa, formerly the Mesopotamian city of Edessa, is said to have been the birthplace of Abraham. Though archaeologists now ...

Just next door to Hagia Sophia is Hagia Irene, Church of the Holy Peace, where the legacy of Byzantine Iconclasm (a religious controversy) is still very much visible.

Sikinos (ancient Oinoe or Oenoe) is one of the smaller islands of Greece, located in the southern part of the archipelago ...

Greece is often celebrated for its sun-drenched islands and ancient ruins, but tucked between its olive groves and mountain villages lies another treasure: the legacy of Byzantine art and faith. The ...

Just one month after announcing that the world-famous Hagia Sophia, originally a Byzantine cathedral, would be converted back into a mosque, Turkish President Erdogan has inflamed tensions yet again ...

Hidden out of sight and forgotten for centuries in the Shoham Community Forest, near the heart of Israel, archaeologists have now uncovered the remains of an extraordinary 6th-century Byzantine church ...

Eirene-Sophia Kiapidou, Byzantine Historiographical Prefaces (4th–15th Centuries): A Study on the Praxis and Culture of Writing History in Byzantium (Byzantioς: Studies in Byzantine History and ...