Kythera is an enchanted Greek island with majestic beaches, but with green mountainous terrain also, so there is something for everyone.

In a significant enforcement action coordinated by Spain's Guardia Civil, Europol's Operation Pandora IX resulted in the ...

For about the past 10 years, the Archives Committee has set up shop during the Greek Festival to sell icons — mostly ...

Their individuality, large eyes, and use of gold leaf would live on in Byzantine icons, and in the art of medieval and Renaissance Europe centuries later. Nearly 1,000 of these portraits are held ...

As we know, the early Byzantine and post-Byzantine paintings continue the Hellenistic and Roman tradition and style of mural painting. The oldest preserved icons of St. Catherine’s collection in Sinai ...

The painters gradually left the Byzantine style and painted realistically. Paintings of these artists, many unknown, are on display in the Athens National Gallery.” Who was El Greco, The Greek? The ...

With only 19 parishes in his eparchy, the new bishop of Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix, Artur Bubnevych, hopes the missionary character of his church will be a ...

The Byzantine “monk” buried in chains near Jerusalem was a woman. Credit: Matan Chocron / Israel Antiquities Authority An archaeological discovery near Jerusalem has shaken the foundations of ...

A Byzantine-era monastery, from the 5th-6th centuries CE, has been uncovered near the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday. The monastery features a ...

A massive Byzantine-era monastery complex with a unique mosaic was recently unearthed next to the southern city of Kiryat Gat, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a Monday statement.

From Greece comes the discovery of the first-ever portrait of the last-ever Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI Phalaiologos. Discovered at a monastery Constantine’s brothers once patronized ...