In his studio in San Sebastián, Spain's gastronomic capital where traditional cuisine meets modern experimentation, designer Santos Bregaña found an unlikely muse: a Byzantine princess who scandalized ...

Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.

Among her ancestors are saints, Holy Roman and Byzantine emperors ... Italy, last week, was in a ferment over Princess Maria Gabriella. The report was that she might marry a king twice her ...

In 249, legends say the woman who later became St. Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry, was tortured and killed for being a Christian. Her tormentors broke her teeth with iron points and ...

Legend says that it belonged to a princess who pledged to marry any ... Petra became a provincial capital under the Byzantine Empire. But when that in turn fell to Muslim forces in the seventh ...

The Greek prince announced his engagement two weeks ago, shortly after his romance with the daughter of a shipping magnate ...

Maria Argyropoulina, who had travelled from the Byzantine Empire to marry the son ... she skewered her food. This princess in a new land ate using a two-pronged golden utensil which we modern ...

Many varieties of ancient Greek healing herbs grow on "Asclepius Path," Mount Kerketion, where god of medicine, Asclepius, collected them.

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

Lalaounis, one of the most important jewellers of the 1950s and 60s, was a design chameleon, taking inspiration from various eras of Greek history, from Classical to Byzantine to Minoan.

The statue was made to fit the hall—then known as the Chimnabai Hall—inside the iconic Byzantine structure that for over a ... In her blog on the statue, Princess Padmajaraje Gaekwad, daughter of ...

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