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Greek monastery manuscripts tell new story of Ottoman rule

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...
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Ancient Greek Star Map Revealed by X-Rays on Erased Manuscript linked to Hipparchus

X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...
Reuters

British Library puts Greek manuscripts online

LONDON (Reuters) - The British Library in London has posted over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts, equating to more than 280 volumes, online, the latest step towards digitising important ancient ...
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British Library posts Greek manuscripts to Web

LONDON — One of the world's most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years. The British Library said today ...
Greek Reporter

Digenes Akritas, the Legendary Warrior of the Byzantine Empire

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine borderlands.
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Greek monastery manuscripts tell new story of Ottoman rule

Deep inside the medieval fortified monastery in Greece, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of... MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the ...
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Greek monastery manuscripts tell new story of Ottoman rule

Father Theophilos, a Pantokrator monk, left, Byzantine scholar Yiannis Niehoff-Panagiotidis, center, and Anastassios Nikopoulos, a jurist and scientific collaborator of the Free University of Berlin, ...