An ancient Christian monastery has been discovered north of Kiryat Gat, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced in a press ...

In Christianity’s early centuries, Syria became one of the faith’s main intellectual centers, producing some of its most important leaders and thinkers. At the beginning of the country’s civil war in ...

In recent years, new archaeological discoveries have added to the ongoing debate about the historical existence of Jesus.

Seems to me that the Byzantine emperors, including the Palaeologan line from the thirteenth century, persecuted religious minorities, including Jews, Manichaeans and dissident Christians ...

According to Antiochus, the Sasanian capture of Jerusalem resulted in the death of around 60,000 Byzantine Christians. Nearly 1,400 years later, retaliatory Iranian missiles struck Israel in a ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

who opened the gates to Amr ibn al-As’s army—they preferred his tolerance to the repression suffered under the Melkites or Byzantine Christians—secured Egypt permanently for the Islamic side. From ...

This is the first comprehensive study of marriage rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean world of Byzantine Christianity. Using a large corpus of unedited liturgical manuscripts as well as other ...

The date of 25 December, 4 BCE was not always viewed as the date of the birth of Jesus. What did the early Christians believe?

At the beginning of the country’s civil war in 2011, nearly 1,400 years after the conquest of Byzantine (Christian) Syria in 638 C.E. by the Rashidun Caliphate, its population included roughly 3 ...