Where the past is present

A trip to Jordan, like any other, usually revolves around familiar highlights: Petra’s rose-red façades, the desert ...
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How Much Do Bagpipes Cost?

This article was researched using 13 sources. See our methodology and corrections policy. New Great Highland bagpipes generally cost $1,050 to $2,600 for the student, intermediate, and traditional ...
Greek Reporter

How the Byzantine World Revolutionized Greek Writing With Minuscule Script

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The Spectacular Byzantine Churches That Still Exist in Italy

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The Power of Poetry in Late Byzantium

The writing and reading of poetry was a ubiquitous element of cultural expression in Byzantium, from late antiquity until the end of the Byzantine period in the mid-fifteenth century. Poems were read ...
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Byzantine Epigraphy

Even if Byzantium was no “civilisation d’épigraphie”, as once stated so appropriately by the epigraphis Loius Robert regarding the Roman Empire, Byzantine inscriptions in prose and verse form ...