"Baldwin’s Treasure" is a premier collection of Byzantine sacred antiquities, including rare Christian and Jewish objects, ...
The book The Vatican and Me is an account of a work in progress – a work of enormous cultural significance which has already yielded great benefits but has the potential to provide the world ...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Once shrouded in history and legend, the so-called tunics of St. Peter and St. John the Evangelist have been subjected to a full restoration and carbon-dating analysis by ...
This collection is of an enormous importance as it is widely acknowledged that the Georgian manuscript heritage contains unique material for Byzantine cultural development. These works have preserved ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Between the sixth and eighth centuries CE, the image emerged as a rhetorical category in religious literature produced in the Mediterranean ...
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Hundreds of worshippers filled the narrow streets of Istanbul’s Fatih district on Friday to hear the sounds of Friday prayers ringing out from the newly inaugurated Kariye Mosque. Once known as the ...
The Art Institute’s department of Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium (AAMB) showcases the early development of Western art from the dawn of the third millennium BCE to the time of the ...
ANKARA, May 14 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday confirmed the reopening of a mosque in Istanbul converted from an ancient Byzantine Orthodox church, in the face of Greek protests.
On April 26, I stood with Jews and Christians just outside Columbia University chanting “Bring Them Home” amid a sea of Israeli flags and photos of the hostages still held captive in Gaza. I couldn’t ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday confirmed the reopening for Muslim worship of a mosque in Istanbul converted from an ancient Byzantine Orthodox church. “The Kariye mosque in its new ...