For 1,600 years, a once-thriving frontier settlement lay buried beneath Egypt's western desert. Once governed by Byzantine ...
(The Conversation) — Gaza’s Omari Mosque embodies the history of Gaza – as a site of frequent destruction, but also of renewal, writes a scholar of Islamic architecture and archaeology. The mosque was ...
(The Conversation) — Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The ...
THESSALONIKI, Greece — Under fluttering strings of Greek and Byzantine flags, three men raised a party tent on the terrace of the 5th century Osios David church one recent Saturday, hoping it would ...
The Associated Press A party tent is raised on the sea-facing terrace of the 5th-century church of Osios David on June 25 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Later that day, a festival would be celebrated there ...
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