A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

Italian archeologists from the ABAP Superintendency for the Municipality of Venice and the Lagoon found brickwork and buried skeletons, believed to be part of an ancient church.

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

Law & Politics Italian Authorities Thwart Tomb Raiders Pillaging Medieval Church. The gang of looters was plundering a previously unknown medieval church that lies 25 feet underground.

Stock image showing the Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy, with the Basilica visible in the center. Traces of a long-lost medieval church (not pictured) are thought to have been uncovered in the ...

Archaeologists in Italy unearthed a stone tomb and building ruins under the Piazza San Marco and found a lost medieval church, photos show. Photo from Toa Heftiba via Unsplash Reaching Venice’s ...

For example, one of four surviving medieval painted wood ceilings in Europe is in St Michael’s Church in Hildesheim, northern Germany. Many of the features are evidently Islamic in inspiration.

Picture yourself in a medieval Italian church, light streaming down from above. The gold glint of an altarpiece attracts your notice from afar, and as you approach you see that not only the gold ...

Archaeologists in Italy unearthed a stone tomb and building ruins under the Piazza San Marco and found a lost medieval church, photos show. Photo from Toa Heftiba via Unsplash ...