Kyiv stood when it wasn’t meant to. For three years it has held the line, not just for Europe, but for all of us who still ...

THE medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

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As well as ruins of the medieval hospital, there is also a Tudor fireplace backstage, and a Roman well directly underneath ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon’s Rock — transcends country-based branches of the ...

On 15 March last, the Orthodox starets Ilja (Nozdrin), spiritual father of the Patriarch of Moscow Kirill, died at the age of 93 in the famous monastery of Optina Pustyn, in central-southern ...

Archaeologists have unearthed gold and silver jewelry at an early-medieval burial ground near the city of Sevastopol in ...

Its long story is etched into its dramatic landscapes, seen in medieval monasteries, hilltop churches and the ancient streets of Yerevan, a city that predates Rome by centuries.

The beautiful cathedral of the Andronikov Monastery, now the oldest standing building in Moscow (though damaged in Napoleon’s invasion and fire of 1812), dates from the late 1420s.

My new book Andrey Rublev: The Artist and His World is an overview of the master medieval Russian painter. Rublev, active around 1400 in and near Moscow, was a monk and painter of icons, frescoes and ...