One thing I enjoy about returning to a destination is the chance to update the outdated impressions I’ve held in my mind from ...

The Italian city entertains travellers with striking architecture, vivid street life, a cosmopolitan vibe, and a fun-loving ...

Plumed helmets gleamed in the shade of its forests, priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses ... unless it may have been the later Byzantine Empire, which it resembled in the minuteness ...

The symbol of Western Civilization, the Acropolis' Parthenon was converted to a Christian church for almost a millennium, ...

Credit: Cimabue, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 One of the most intriguing cultural exchanges in European history is the significant impact of Byzantine art on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution ...

He was a Byzantine emperor who reigned from 491 to 518 CE. Born around 430 CE in Dyrrhachium (modern-day Albania), and was originally a high-ranking official in the Byzantine civil service before ...