Two exhibitions on view in New York delve into artists' long-standing fascination with the unknown, and what it says about our current moment.

Thanks to the artist Haroun Binous, we now see that Roman emperor Augustus was the heartthrob Daniel Craig of the ancient ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art highlights work from 12th- and 13th-century Angkor—the heart of the Khmer empire—and beyond ...

From Hellenistic dining-room mosaics to 1,600-year-old Byzantine floors, Sinop’s ancient mosaics at the Balatlar Complex will soon be accessible to the public via a new visitor center.

A well-kept secret of the Acropolis is a cave hiding an ancient Asclepius temple with a spring of holy water, as later Christians believed.

The Byzantine Empire has marked world history in many significant ways, contributing ingenious inventions still in use to ...

Discover the accidental unearthing of a 1,500-year-old Byzantine mosaic in Turkey's Midyat district, featuring geometric ...

A fringe historical theory claims we’re actually living in the 1700s, arguing that nearly 300 years of early medieval history were fabricated by medieval rulers. But historians point to recorded ...

From entrenched frontiers to conceptual battlegrounds, Nicholas Tsoutas dismantles the limits that define culture, perception ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.

The Chronographia of Michael Psellus [Byzantine History, 970s-1070s], translated from Greek by E.R.A. Sewter (London, 1953), in 146 bookmarked and searchable ...

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