Long-haired Norsemen with gold-gilded axes once guarded emperors in Constantinople. The Varangian Guard wasn’t just elite—they were legendary.

Haifa, Israel (July 17, 2025) - Negev farmers during the Byzantine period successfully established a thriving wine economy in the heart of the arid desert. However, the agricultural system they ...

Nun’s skeleton reveals that some ancient women were extreme hermits Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and ...

Findings include mosaics, apses, and possibly a larger complex from the early Byzantine period.

A Byzantine Journey is exotic, but only because so much of our own heritage has been forgotten or distorted.

The full report, which you can find here, shows that Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) terminated almost 11,000 channels between April and June of 2025 as part of an investigation into ...

The findings demonstrate that the organization of the Byzantine economy encompassed the institutions of private property, individual initiative, private enterprise, price-making markets, and free ...

Jeffrey Spier, Medieval Byzantine Magical Amulets and Their Tradition, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 56 (1993), pp. 25-62 ...

The Catechism lists seven rites. These rites so listed: Latin, Byzantine, Alexandrian, Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, and Chaldean,2 are actually families of liturgical expression.

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not ...

Our Lady is clothed in a dress of dark red which was long reserved in the Byzantine world for the Empress alone, indicating the Queenship of Mary.

US-China tariff rates have become increasingly complex, shaped by years of escalating trade actions and policy shifts. With overlapping measures such as Section 301 tariffs, the recent reciprocal ...