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

She had even hidden €62,000 in the living room's glass cabinet – One of the seven arrested individuals possessed rare ...

This finding provides the first tangible evidence of extreme ascetic practices among Byzantine women, previously thought to be predominantly associated with male monks. The remains were unearthed at a ...

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Officials in conservative communities in the United States have been removing books from schools and libraries, to the outrage and dismay of liberal-minded Americans. This process has reportedly ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

And this part of the world is rich in historic sites, the greatest of which is the magnificent ancient city of Ephesus ... at the majestic walls of the Byzantine castle. There wasn’t time ...

The existence of these “superhumans” was supposedly confirmed in an ancient Roman manuscript. The book was called Germania and was written by Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman historiographer who was ...

An old Vatican book dating back a whopping 900 years seems to have predicted when the world is coming to an end - and it's not very far off. You'd be forgiven for being sceptical, seeing as we've ...