Ruth Kinna's examination of Christmas, Kropotkin's connections to the traditions and the potential within it for a radical ...

On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark ...

The name Basil II is remembered throughout Byzantine history as one of its most powerful and ruthless Emperors in battle.

Too many within the literary and arts scenes of both this country, and across the West, are actively leading an assault ...

Christmas came early for the Polish Air Force, as its first two Lockheed Martin F-35A “ Husarz ” fighters arrived at Ebbing ...

Abkhazia is in the South Caucasus, along the eastern coast of the Black Sea. It borders Georgia to the southeast and Russia ...

The history and characteristics of the unique surviving portrait of the last byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, ...

Wednesday marks the first time the start of Hanukkah and Christmas have fallen on the same day since 2005 and only the fifth ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

The Byzantine army fell into disarray, and Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes made a desperate attempt to rally the Roman centre, ...

Many hammams are being restored to revive this age-old practice, becoming favorites among both tourists and locals.

It dates to the 15th-century fall of the great empire and offers a vision of the man painted according to his likeness.