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Significant finds that include an extensive early Christian church and early Byzantine buildings, as well as monumental structures from a much-older ancient sanctuary, have...

An Ottoman Turkish inscription has been found written on a marble plaque at the Agios Markos Basilica in Heraklion, Crete, misplaced inside a warehouse. The...

The Byzantine Museum in Athens has opened its new permanent exhibition titled "From Byzantium to the Modern Era". The exhibition features the Museums Post Byzantine...

Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantines in naval battles, spewing fire that even burned on water

Kythera is an enchanted Greek island with majestic beaches, but with green mountainous terrain also, so there is something for everyone.

Rizitika songs are the oldest type of Cretan music, originating from the western part of the Greek island, but now heard in central and eastern Crete as well.

Byzantine contribution to art, and especially to painting, was original and reached a degree of expressiveness that can rarely be compared with any other

Despite relative obscurity in Western historiography, Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world. The Byzantines, more accurately known as the Eastern...

Following the conversion of the Hagia Sophia to a mosque, Turkey turned the iconic Chora Church in Istanbul into a mosque on Monday as...

When the army of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204, the Byzantine Empire of Trebizond was formed as a successor state that lasted...