Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit:Shutterstock. Greece is often celebrated for its sun-drenched islands and ancient ruins, but tucked between its olive ...

Memories of the Byzantine Empire Remaining in MosaicsOctober 30, 2026Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki(Hellenic Republic)Memories of the Byzantine Empire Remaining in MosaicsWorld ...

One of the largest and oldest churches built in France since the Middle Ages, the Marseille Cathedral is a marvel of Neo-Byzantine architecture. It’s an example of a historicism, a 19th-century trend ...

Across Europe, a handful of churches have stood for more than 1,500 years, surviving long after the Roman Empire disappeared and centuries before many of the continent’s castles, cathedrals, and ...

The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of ...

THESSALONIKI, GreeceTHESSALONIKI, Greece — Under fluttering strings of Greek and Byzantine flags, three men raised a party tent on the terrace of the 5th century Osios David church one recent Saturday ...

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.

A series of public lectures on Byzantine Church Architecture by Professor K. J. Conant '15, associate professor of architecture has just been announced. Professor Conant has just returned from his ...

A team of archaeologists in Jordan believes it has finally located the lost Byzantine city of Tharais, using clues hidden in a 1,500-year-old mosaic map. After several years of surveys and excavations ...

The Turkish government has decided to turn a 12th-century Byzantine church into a mosque, a fate like that of Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sophia, says a report. The Church of the Holy Savior in Chora, ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - Under fluttering strings of Greek and Byzantine flags, three men raised a party tent on the terrace of the 5th century Osios David church one recent Saturday, hoping it ...