Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...

Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known leaders of Greek origin held great power over numerous countries ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

A Texas Green Orthodox church is embarking on the final phase of a multimillion-dollar, yearslong expansion project amid ...

Greek yogurt, a creamy, protein-rich superfood, traces its roots to the Middle East and Central Asia, where ancient Greeks ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a ...

The ruins of another former capital, Byzantine Paleochora, can be found to the east above Agios Nektarios, one of the biggest churches in Greece, built for the most recent Greek Orthodox saint ...

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

There's something magical about the contrast between the deep-blue waters of the Aegean Sea and the ancient ruins and white buildings found on the Greek islands. The best Greece cruises offer a ...

A new archaeometric study of 66 marble artifacts from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and Chhim in Lebanon reveals their origins in the Prokonnesos and Dokimeion quarries of modern Turkey, ...

The Byzantine Museum in Nicosia ... Cyprus gained independence from British rule in 1960, but Greek-Turkish Cypriot tensions led to violence, with Turkey intervening in 1974 after a Greek-backed ...