A mural of St John the Baptist preserved on the west wall of the church, which can be dated to the 12th century, traces the foundation of the monastery to the Middle Byzantine period, Lampides said.

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...

The towns center is dominated by town square, one of the most beautiful in Montenegro, built in 1885 at the request of King ...

The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of ...

It also drew upon the work of previous scholars, such as seventh-century Byzantine medic Paul of Aegina. Translated into Latin in the 12th century, Method was a foundational medical text in Europe ...

The first, a Byzantine-style building, was constructed in the 6th and 7th centuries, before a Romanesque church replaced it in the 12th century. Then, the 1667 earthquake wrecked the structure.

In the 12th century, the sultan Saladin wrested most ... From A.D. 363, Petra became part of the Byzantine Empire. Some of its buildings were adorned with Byzantine mosaics such as this ...

Dating back to 1425, the Byzantine-Cycladic building is in the ... the construction of this medieval wooden church began in the late 12th century. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the church in ...

By the 12th century, the free-trade arrangements between the Byzantines ... if we consider that Constantinople’s population at the time was half a million. Local Byzantine merchants struggled to ...

On the slopes of Nemea, on the plateau of Mantineia, and in medieval Monemvasia, three families are carving out their own ...