A festival of art, music, talks and pilgrimage is to be held in Shrewsbury to mark 1,700 years since one of the most ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

Eugenio Alliata's office in Jerusalem resembles any archaeology workshop that prefers fieldwork. On the overcrowded shelves, ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her ...