Greek politicians make no secret of their opposition to a resort under construction near an ancient Orthodox monastery in ...

Father Epiphanios of Mylopotamos, was the Greek monk who first brought Holy Mount Athos cuisine to the world and authored a monastic cookbook ...

Georgios Gemistos Pletho, the last great Greek Platonist, inspired the Renaissance with his radical vision for Hellenism and ...

The new show at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery covers the late medieval age to the Arts and Crafts Movement.

The word palimpsest originates from the Greek word ‘palimpsēstos’, meaning rubbed again or scraped again. This term, in turn, ...

We can still see it in action: in 1536, an Italian merchant, Francesco Lapi, wrote from Seville to Rome, pricing wine at 70 ...

St. Catherine's, the Christian world's oldest continuing monastery, drew international attention earlier this year because of ...

The biblical site of Mount Sinai in Egypt is at the heart of an unholy row over plans to build a huge new tourism project.

Middle ages recipes were meant to act as a reminder, a series of quick notes to recall to mind something taught orally.

David Lewis Schaefer lays out the case that the sixteenth-​century libertarian work On Voluntary Servitude was written by ...

Peering into the past, we find that our ancestors held a surprisingly advanced understanding of the stars and constellations.

A rare collection of engravings by cosmographer André Thevet is set to be auctioned in Paris on. The starting price is set at ...