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There’s one Turkish city boasting stunning locales and exquisite food that hasn’t fallen prey to the tourist trap just yet — ...
How the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra has changed after the expulsion of the Moscow Patriarchate, whether it can reclaim the shrine, ...
One of the most captivating remnants of the ancient world is the Boxers Fresco from the Minoan settlement of Akrotiri on ...
“It is a well-known phenomenon in tombs from Byzantine times, which was attested in cemeteries also outside of Israel,” he said. “Men were only rarely buried with such gifts.” Ebony is a ...
In the home where the four people examined in the new study died, a central wall in the banquet hall has a fresco of Phrixus and his sister Helle from Greek mythology. As the myth goes ...
As Stefan Krajisnik explained: “I think A.J. Hawk is a symbol for an era of Ohio State football in a way that I’m not sure Zeke all the way is. Because when you think of early Jim Tressel ...
Renaissance painter’s fresco cycle depicting the life of the saint in Assisi, Italy, took an innovative, vibrant approach to ...
Mr Hart from Shrewsbury has icons, frescoes, mosaics and sculptures in ... "Icons, of course, are not merely an eastern Byzantine phenomenon. Britain’s early Christian tradition was iconographic ...
This month, travel agency Fora has brought that nostalgic experience back to the modern era with a pop-up location—open through May 29—in New York City. It’s more like Soho House than the ...
Goreme Open Air Museum is a complex of UNESCO-listed medieval cave churches carved by Byzantine monks. Hidden among a scrum of towering outcrops, many still contain colourful frescoes of prophets ...