With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive tome Philokalia.

The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

Under a vast canopy of tents in the Saudi city of Jeddah, religious artefacts are on display alongside contemporary art ...

"Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it." This fresco provides crucial evidence of the influence of Islamic art on medieval European Christianity and indicates a ...

Nubian costumes meticulously recreated of School of Form designers will soon be showcased at Berlin's Bode-Museum.

This site, depicted in the famous Bayeux Tapestry, has been revealed through a combination of reexamined evidence, new archaeological studies, and the discovery of a medieval latrine. The Bayeux ...

Nestled in the 16th arrondissement, the Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot church impresses with its Romanesque-Byzantine architecture in rough concrete, and its exceptional frescoes and tympanum.

The material resembles medieval chainmail at the molecular level and could be used in body armor. Chemists have invented a new material that could be the future of body armor — chainmail.