The Washington, D.C.-based Museum of the Bible handed over an ancient, handwritten gospel to the Greek Orthodox Church yesterday, the latest move in its ongoing effort to shore up its reputation after ...
Near the end of the 18th century, a Greek monk named Nikodemos was putting together a massive anthology of Byzantine texts on prayer and spirituality, which he would call The Philokalia. He lamented ...
It has been another big week in digital archaeology and history, folks. In this week's Digest, we explore the digitization of Biblical manuscripts, ancient timepieces, Byzantine shipwrecks and the ...
On “The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Byzantium! A name that glitters. A synonym for formality, unbending etiquette ...
Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum is returning a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of the New Testament that dates back to 12th-century Greece, reports AFA news. The piece has been missing from the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detail from a 14th-century miniature Greek manuscript depicting scenes from the life of Alexander the Great. Public domain, via ...
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