Was architecture really a non-factor in Byzantine art? A new book debunks conventional wisdom. Europe’s cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and baptisteries cover the countryside like Veronica ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex ...

NIKOLAOS KARYDIS, Discovering the Byzantine Art of Building, Architectural History, Vol. 63 (2020), pp. 171-190 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save and organize content with ...

Slobodan (Danny) Ćurčić, professor of art and archaeology, emeritus, at Princeton University, and a global authority on Byzantine art and architecture, died Dec. 3 in Thessaloniki, Greece.He was 76.

Associated Press Monday, June 9, 2025 7:17 a.m. | Monday, June 9, 2025 7:17 a.m. MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria — A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been ...

A guard inspects an engraved stone, originally found at a Byzantine underground tomb complex believed to be over 1,500 years old and uncovered by a contractor during the reconstruction of a war ...

MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria (AP) — A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an… ...

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople — today’s Istanbul — and Christianity as its official religion.