On guard with the Vikings in old Byzantium

Rome - An encyclopaedia of Italian political slang has shone a light on a colourful and Byzantine world where lawmakers and journalists speak a language you won't find in any ordinary dictionary. The confusing nature of Italian politics has come to ...

will teach Art History. will join the College as Senior Lecturer in Art History from Michaelmas 2014. He will teach a module on the Art and Architecture of Byzantium as part of the Art History contextual course which will be available to students at ...

BAVARIA, GERMANY—The bacterium Yersinia pestis, which caused the disease known as the Black Death in the fourteenth century, has been identified in DNA samples taken from 19 skeletons of people who died in sixth-century southern Germany. It is ...

Watch out Prince Harry! Wearing a bejeweled gold crown, in New York on Monday in a Dolce & Gabbana look complete with a Byzantine-inspired frock with hand-sewn beaded bronze, gold and turquoise mosaics. The designers, Domenico Dolce and Stefano ...

Mosaic pavement in the Saint Hilarion Byzantine monastery - (World Monuments Fund) By Luis Lema LE TEMPS/Worldcrunch GAZA - At first sight, it is just a wasteland. Sand blown in from a nearby beach covers the scattered bushes. Here and there, ...

Construction for the planned square at Yenikapı kicked off recently, with initial works taking place around the Samatya shores, near the ancient Byzantine city walls, daily Radikal reported. The construction began by the filling the shoreline with ...

If you're confused about the byzantine web of watch lists designed to stop terrorists in their tracks, you're not alone. Today, the FBI came under greater scrutiny with the revelation that suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in ...

Banking regulation must be simplified for the sake of both financial stability and society, Andy Haldane, the Bank of England's executive director for financial stability, has said. Regulations have grown Byzantine in their complexity and ...

A byzantine maze of maritime rules and regulations, fragmented oversight and a patchwork quilt of nations that do business with cruise lines make it tough for consumers to assess the health and