One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into Eastern Europe.

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

The tradition of icon painting began to develop simultaneously with the development of Christianity. In the modern era, avant ...

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

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

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

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

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

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

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