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

As the island of Patmos continues to evolve, one local designer considers just how much of the past to incorporate into her ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

The first discovery of a woman’s remains at a Byzantine monastery challenges long-held beliefs about early Christian ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

Morton D. May might have amassed one of the most impressive collections of twentieth-century German art on the planet, but throughout his life he was, first and foremost, a businessman. Within a ...

C24 Gallery announced the publication of their new catalogue, Christian Vincent: Culture Keeper, following the success of Vincent’s recent solo exhibition at C24, Culture Keepers.

Three early-medieval stashes of gold and silver pieces, alongside hundreds of coins, have been discovered at a "cult site" in the Netherlands. The 1,300-year-old finds may be "devil's money ...

30 x 45.5 cm. (11.8 x 17.9 in.) ...

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