A first-of-its-kind fashion exhibition at the Paris museum draws links between historical objects and the contemporary creations of 45 designers and houses. It opens Jan. 24.

Something had to change, and in 1868 the Meiji Restoration replaced the decaying shogunate with the Empire of Japan – a constitutional ... period in the development of Islamic art and architecture.

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

Nestled in the heart of Wicker Park, Myopic Books stands as a beacon for book lovers, its green storefront a siren call to ...

However, we can say the island really got on the map when it was settled in the mid-7th Century ... The island continued to enjoy a degree of independence under the Byzantine Empire. Improvements in ...

The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

These measures not only optimized tax collection but also promoted stability in an increasingly vast and diverse empire. Map of Boundary stones in the northern Hula Valley. Credit: R. Sabar The ...

“High lead contents persist throughout the times of the Roman Empire and the first half of the Byzantine Empire,” they wrote. Scientists also found lead in marine sediment cores, which they ...

These techniques allowed researchers to map the chemical and mineralogical composition of ... and basalts either locally sourced or from other parts of the Roman Empire. The mosaic remains the subject ...

Photograph by Art Archive Much later ... Much later, following the breakup of the Roman Empire, Petra became a provincial capital under the Byzantine Empire. But when that in turn fell to Muslim ...