The Boukoleon Palace, currently being restored, was one of the most historically significant Byzantine palaces in ...

This video explores the rise, decline, and transformation of Constantinople, from its splendor as the Byzantine capital to its rebirth as Ottoman Istanbul. It highlights the city’s grand monuments, ...

How many of us knew that Italy, the epicenter of Roman Catholicism, hosts some of the most exquisite and beautiful Byzantine ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The Art Bulletin publishes leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions. From its founding in 1913 the journal ...

The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Hidden for a millennium, it took a 21st-century drought to reveal the ruins of a long-lost port city. Five years after archaeologists discovered its four-kilometer-long seawall on a polluted lake 20 ...

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi, 440+. Illus., maps, table, appends., notes, biblio., index. $44.99. ISBN: 1108480713 A Byzantine ...

Generally, many of the faithful may not be familiar with the beautiful art of the Eastern Catholic Churches, such as those in the Byzantine rite (see sidebar below). One of the most beautiful ...