By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia.

The structure underwent at least two phases of remodeling ... of the Christian presence in Latium during the post-imperial period. In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, ...

The Catholic Church is an institution of remarkable longevity. The year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of ...

In the past year, GSAS students across programs have earned a wide range of external grants and fellowships. Th ...

In the Middle East, it seems, your church is your social world, and you know little ... (inheritor of the Near Eastern section of the empire of Alexander the Great) had set up his statue of ...

Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

Let’s look at empires. Everyone talks about the Roman/Byzantine Empire, which lasted nearly 1,500 years but its total territorial size was about 5 million square kilometers. That is nothing ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...