The Monastery of Chora saw a great turnout for the Friday prayer, the first since it became a mosque. Few…
Mandrocles: The ancient Greek engineer who built a bridge across the Bosporus connecting 600 ships
Byzantium has been, amongst many things, an inspiration to one of the world’s most interesting art traditions: the legacy…
The oldest Armenian coins found in Armenia date back to the 6th-5th centuries BC. As this was a century of…
On May 11, 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire…
Theophobos (Θεόφοβος), originally Nasir (ناصر), was a Kurdish commander of the Khurramite sect who converted to Christianity and entered Byzantine…
In ancient Greece there was a similar custom of decorating a tree, except that the plant was not a fir…
The discovery of a 3.50-metre-long marble lintel found during an excavation near the foundations of the Byzantine gate of the castle…
On May 11, 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire…
On December 1, as on the first day of every month, people flocked in droves to the wish-granting Greek Orthodox…
The Academy of Athens and the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad & Public Diplomacy of the Greek Ministry of Foreign…
Palaiologue is the new slow-fashion clothing brand created by Greek-American, Vicky Hioureas. Her first collection has drawn lots of attention…
On May 11, 330, Constantine I dedicated Byzantium (Constantinople; now Istanbul) as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire…
Second generation Greek Australian Billy Cotsis, has written a number of books including the acclaimed Many Faces of Hellenic Culture, Once…
This Saturday, January 25th 2020, the first state youth conference organised by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia: District of Melbourne,…
Greece’s President Prokopis Pavlopoulos honoured Professor Macleod Beaton, Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History at the University of London,…
Australia’s first recording of hymns and psalms from the Greek Orthodox ecclesiastic tradition in Byzantine music, aptly named “Byzantium”, has…
Due for a relaunch this year, Australia’s first ever recording of one of the world’s oldest surviving musical traditions actually…