Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine mosaics. While locals go about their business, busloads of tourists slip in and ...

A Byzantine monastery with a colorful mosaic floor bearing a Greek inscription has been uncovered during work by the Israel Land Authority on a real estate development in Karmey Gat North. “This is ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with the richest collection of Byzantine mosaics anywhere. While locals go about their business, busloads of ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with the richest collection of Byzantine mosaics anywhere. While locals go about their business, busloads of ...

The Daphni Monastery in Athens is one of the greatest Byzantine masterpieces and an example of architecture and religious iconography.

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand with the missing mosaic of St. Mark, a rare piece of Byzantine art. Getty Images A missing piece of ancient Byzantine art stolen from Cyprus four decades ago was ...

Shimmering mosaics. Liturgical vestments. Classical sculpture. Elaborate jewelry. Comprising 63 works, “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium From Greek Collections” is a modestly sized exhibition at the ...

A centuries-old mosaic of Saint Mark has gone on display at a Cyprus museum that now plans to reunite it with the 11 other apostles decades after it was looted in the island's Turkish-held north. The ...

Europe’s cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and baptisteries cover the countryside like Veronica’s veil. They comprise the continent’s landmarks and focal attractions and, for centuries, have been ...

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