The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

In 249, legends say the woman who later became St. Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry, was tortured and killed for being a Christian. Her tormentors broke her teeth with iron points and ...

By 1370 it was no more than a minor state that extended barely beyond the walls of Constantinople - modern ... she pushed away the ladder, and he fell to his death. Needless to say, she was ...

Speaking at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls at ... apostolic blessing. He recalled the pope’s historic 2014 visit to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Constantinople (modern ...

A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington will make the case that Russia threatens the religious ...

The catalogue - online from today with the first 94 works catalogued for the Middle Ages - presents 560 entries in Italian ...

Walls of Constantinople. Credit: archer10, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 One of the most significant contributions of the Greeks to Byzantine defense was its unparalleled fortification systems. For example, the ...

Pope Francis said that he renews his “appeal that this coincidence ... Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the primus inter pares of the Eastern Orthodox communion, acknowledged ...

70.2 x 102 cm. (27.6 x 40.2 in.) ...