One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Ancient artefacts from Gaza amphorae, statues, mosaics, funerary steles and more tell the story of 5,000 years of a ...

Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

From Cold War spies to popular computer games, Berlin’s many museums cover topics guaranteed to interest every kind of ...

Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold ...

There is no other place on Earth where Christian mosaics of saints and Byzantine rulers are juxtaposed with Islamic calligraphy, also known as Hüsn-i Hat — large roundels displaying the names ...

and a vast Byzantine mosaic alive with animals and people. A map showing Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, compiled by research groups and paired with a record of recent archaeological discoveries.

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a Roman mosaic and an almost intact cistern in the ancient Greek city of Syedra.

During these years, he explored abstraction in drawing and absorbed influences ranging from mesoamerican art and textiles, Byzantine mosaics, Jewish ritual traditions, and the intricate geometry ...