A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site ...

The triptych was purchased for the Louvre by the Society of Friends of the Louvre from the private collection of New York ...

In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais ...

Political and ecclesiastical authorities have defended the ancient rights of the Greek Orthodox St Catherine’s Monastery on ...

Jean-Arnault Dérens, historian and editor-in-chief of Le Courrier des Balkans, has just published Geopolitics of Orthodoxy: ...

Founded in the 13th century on Greece’s Mount Athos, the monastery houses monks from more than a dozen countries, including France, China, the United States, and Lebanon. Also known as Simonopetra, or ...

Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain ...

The government is interested in maintaining the Greek Orthodox and pilgrimage nature of the St Catherine monastery at Mt ...