Try a custard-soft Byzantine cheesecake linking your modern kitchen to Byzantium and the medieval Mediterranean—with just ...

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The Halki Theological School has become a symbol of Orthodox heritage and a focal point in the push for religious freedoms in ...

Pope Leo will embark on his first trip outside Italy on Thursday, travelling to Turkey and Lebanon. Here is a history of ...

A Turkish diplomat's viral tweet dismissing Greece's ancient legacy in Anatolia has unleashed a storm of backlash, ...

While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.

This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

When in 955 ad a 20,000-strong force of Magyar raiders besieged the city of Augsburg, Saxon King Otto I gathered an army to ...

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

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight about it. That repeated splintering is what makes the Council of Nicaea — a ...

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