Lousios Gorge has been inhabited for centuries in Greece, mainly by hermits and monks who lived in caves. Two monasteries located near the gorge remain open to visitors: Philosophou and Timiou Prodromou (St. John the Baptist).
The historian Pausanias described...
The Greek Ministry of Culture presented the 53 church treasures that Bulgaria returned to Greece after 109 years, including precious Byzantine icons, an episcopal throne, elaborate processional crosses and others.
The catalogued 53-piece collection includes church objects dating from the...
Greece has reopened the restored Byzantine Moglena Castle in Pella following the completion of a €1.85 million ($2.13 million) conservation and enhancement project. The Recovery and Resilience Facility financed the work. For centuries, Moglena Castle served as an important...
The Rotunda, built by Roman emperor Galerius in 306 AD, is the oldest of Thessaloniki's churches and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It was built at the turning point between the pagan and Christian world, probably as a temple for...
The Vikings were a seafaring people from Scandinavia. They most famously raided in and around the British Isles and the western coasts of Europe. However, what many people do not know is that they were active much further east,...
The story of the Ancient Greek Piraeus Lion, which is now in Venice, is one of several which are part of Greece's long history of ancient sculpted masterpieces and their subsequent looting. This has meant that many of them...
An archaeological excavation in the Muharram Bek district of central Alexandria in Egypt has uncovered significant architectural remains dating from the Hellenistic (Greek/Ptolemaic), Roman, and Byzantine periods, the Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt has announced. The discovery provides new...
Despite relative obscurity in Western historiography, Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world. The Byzantines, more accurately known as the Eastern Romans, developed a distinctive architectural style that has continued to influence construction to this day.
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