If someone asked you to name a history-making woman, you might suggest Rosa Parks or Sandra Day O’Connor. But what about the ...

On display until May 11, the relic has drawn intense devotion, particularly following the recent death of Pope Francis.

Third episode, tonight on TV, Monday, April 28, in prime time on Rai1, with Rai Cultura and 'Ulisse, il piacere della ...

The Hagia Sophia mosaics are unique and represent the ultimate example of Byzantine craftsmanship. They are the only surviving examples of Byzantine mosaics from such a lengthy time period. They cover ...

Call it a happy accident that the exhibition “Worth, Inventing Haute Couture” opens at the Petit Palais in Paris two days ...

More than being figments of our imagination, these castles are real. Spanning continents, castles around the world stand ...

Saint Catherine’s Monastery was the place where God spoke to Prophet Moses and manifested to him on the mountain.

Everybody knows Venice, one of the most famous postcard cities in Italy. Indeed, the yearly number of visitors arriving at ...

Empress Catherine the Great herself was unable ... Plague of Justinian (541-542 AD) Plague of Justinian, where in the Byzantine Empire this happened under Emperor Justinian I, was due to the ...

She also had various correspondents working in Byzantine history, which was her other main academic interest. One day she would write a life of Acacius, the father of the Empress Theodora.

Our Lady is clothed in a dress of dark red which was long reserved in the Byzantine world for the Empress alone, indicating the Queenship of Mary. Some commentators on color claim that bluish ...

Dominic and Tom discuss Harald Hardrada’s time as a Varangian Guard in Constantinople, his escape back to Scandinavia, and his fight for the throne of Norway.