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

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

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious ...

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

I held an impossibly tiny pendant in my hand, the face as small as my thumbnail. Within the silver bezel was an entire mosaic world – tiny pieces of colourful stone creating the tree of life, with ...

Ravenna, is on the outside, a simplistic city. That’s because it hides, on the inside, its most beautiful possessions. Only a walk inside some of its churches will reveal the city’s stunning and ...

Ricardo José Haddad Musi, a Mexican businessman and expert in cultural heritage, compares geometric patterns of Huichol art ...

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 ...

When it come to luxury cruising on the Med, Italians do it better. The post Life is about the journey, not (just) the ...

At Sa Pizzedda, a Sardinian chain, Mediterranean island flavors skip the sprawl of a round pie and are instead bundled up, doubled over, and wrapped up to go.

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed parts of a Roman and Byzantine settlement just outside the modern city of Kiryat Gat. The researchers believe the settlement was ...

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.