Greece’s Culture Ministry, in cooperation with the Epirus Region and the Municipality of Arta, launched the process to ...

Some standards and some surprises–all dazzling destinations to tempt you on your next trip.

The most memorable cultural experiences come from local people, and on Cox & Kings’ solo traveller tour of Peru, which has no single supplement, you’ll be invited to a home-cooked lunch by a family ...

Newtonville iconography studio, Byzantine Artworks LLC is creating mosaic iconography inside the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox ...

Then there's George Papastamatiou, 77, of Sudbury, a third-generation (and world-renowned) iconographer who's working on a ...

Politicians have been sneaking into religious art for centuries. The Byzantine emperor Justinian had himself depicted in a ...

Interior of the church of Agios Georgios, which was built using a synthesis of classical, Roman, and Byzantine architectural elements and materials. Like this church, the genomes of present-day Deep ...

A new genetic study has revealed that the people of Deep Mani, who inhabit one of the remotest regions of mainland Greece, ...

Ben sets his sights on new frontiers of the navel — and sometimes beyond. The mosaics of the early Christian churches at Ravenna are some of the few surviving Byzantine mosaics of their era. Ravenna’s ...

Qalaat Semaan, also known as the Church of St. Simeon Stylites, stands in the Aleppo countryside, northwestern Syria, as one ...

Rooted in early Christian tradition, Candlemas marks the presentation of Jesus and purification of the Virgin Mary at Herod's Temple in Jerusalem.

The Daphni Monastery in Athens is one of the greatest Byzantine masterpieces and an example of architecture and religious iconography.