Initial attempts to reach the city were repelled but the Ottomans prevailed and the emperor Constantine XI was killed in the ...

A drone view shows conservation work at a winepress that was discovered, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), at the site of a large monastery from the Byzantine period ...

during the early Byzantine period of the region. Researchers in the Levant had previously recovered the remains of men from the period engaging in the practice, though it would be centuries before ...

A skeleton that was found shackled with thick mental chains and weighed ... showing that the Byzantine self-torment ritual, was performed by women and not exclusively by men,” write the study ...

These practices included not only wearing heavy chains, metal rings ... The other tombs under the altar contained the remains of women, men, and children. Based on coins and other artifacts ...

“Orthodox change nothing,” Father Sava adds. “The faith that was delivered to the saints,” Martin agrees. We pause before a ...

She holds on her right arm a rosary of white beads with a chain of gold shinning like the ... When Bernadette's appearance was once more transformed, the men present removed their hats and fell ...

She holds on her right arm a rosary of white beads with a chain of gold shinning like the ... When Bernadette's appearance was once more transformed, the men present removed their hats and fell ...

A better deal for collectors than the single hinged-link version that costs $225 (compared to these three hinged links for ...

Chain manufacturing in Auglaize County mirrored the tumultuous industrial struggles in the late 1800s and early 1900s.