Thanks to politics and the passage of time, grand monuments of the 1,000-year Byzantine Empire are easy to miss in the modern metropolis. Tourists take photographs in the Byzantine-era Chora Church, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Zeynep Ahunbay looks with disapproval as she stops before a poster of herself and her late husband alongside ...

On the acropolis of ancient Abdera in western Thrace, within the fortress of Polystylon, archaeologists discovered a cemetery dating to the final throes of the battle between local Byzantine occupants ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

Tourists take photographs in the Byzantine-era Chora Church, which subsequently became a mosque under Ottoman rule and was designated as a museum in 1945 by the Turkish Republic. Recently re-converted ...