Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...

“People wrote their names and other things across the frescos that we are trying to remove by painting over the graffiti with a style and colors similar to what the original artists used.” ...

“People wrote their names and other things across ... about an icon painted by Luke the Apostle hidden somewhere in the Pontic Alps. The monks eventually discovered the sacred relic — a ...

These people descended from the inventors of agriculture and animal ... At the end of the Neolithic period, nomadic populations from the Pontic steppes north of the Black Sea traveled to Europe and ...

The horse has moulded empires, wars and human affairs profoundly ...

After the death of Mithridates, Pompey made his son Pharnaces king of the Bosporus. Pharnaces was declared a friend of the Roman people and became a client of Pompey, but in civil war he did not ...