A 13th century fresco by the Florentine painter Cimabue, featuring one of the earliest depictions of St Francis has been restored to its original glory. The year-long project was led by the ...

Ms Ahunbay winces as she contemplates the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus, or Tekfur Sarayi, a 13th century Byzantine palace restored as a 17th century Ottoman building, complete with rectangular ...

Remarkably, a 12th–13th century AD fortified site on the southern part of Sagalassos was destroyed and erased by the Seljuks in the course of the 13th century AD, making a definitive end to the ...

Woman discovers 13th-century masterpiece worth millions in her kitchen. Titled ‘Christ Mocked’, the painting is expected to sell at auction for around £5.3m ...

Although the genome of the ancient G. vaginalis shows the bug hasn't changed much since the Byzantine period, that isn't the case for the 800-year-old S. saprophyticus, which appears to be more ...