When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.

The movie only recently started filming and is still more than a year away, but each little detail that leaks out from the ...

An ancient Greek snake altar made to appease the gods of the underworld was just unearthed in southern Turkey. Though the ancient city in which it was found is believed to be the birthplace of Santa ...

[In the Roman Empire] you have an enormous set of religious ... It was a blend of belief in the old deities of the Greek and Roman pantheons. The kind of stories that are told in Greek mythology.

Feta is a sheep cheese, one that is protected today so not just any old cheese can use that name. But did you know it ...

Although they kept Latin names and images, the links between Roman and Greek gods gradually came together ... with temples and coins. As the Empire expanded, it took control of new countries ...

The National Gallery is an art museum located on Vasilisis Sofias avenue in Athens, Greece. It is devoted to Greek and ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC ... Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three continents, covering 2 million square miles.

Choosing the first name of your future child is a real dilemma... This name has just been voted the most beautiful in the world.

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC ... Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three continents, covering 2 million square miles.