Stunning in their scale, colour and detail, frescoes can give us a fascinating glimpse of ancient civilisations. Every now and then, a new fresco is discovered which sheds further light onto how ...
Archaeologists in northern France have uncovered a 200-year-old message in a bottle, left by archaeologist P.J. Fére in 1825.
Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...
There is a small monastery 100 km from the city of Vologda, which is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. And all because of the unique ...
The room, with its frescoes and mosaics, was part of “an elegant lifestyle” of its ancient owners, according to the site.
The church of Panagia Kera near Agios Nikolaos on Crete contains the finest-preserved Byzantine frescoes on the Greek island ...
The dancers’ performance showed the beauty of Dunhuang frescoes during the Spring Festival Gala in 2018 [Photo: VCG] In 1999, the Gala was broadcast online for the first time. From the ...
Once a favored holiday destination for Queen Victoria, and reputedly described in one of the greatest works of Italian ...
One of the 30 bridges which is a pedestrian bridge on the ‘Seine River,’ the lifeblood of Paris, the ‘Pont des Arts’ is ...
A new attraction at The Mountain Mile promises to let people get an up-close look at the frescoes that adorn the Sistine ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 22 while addressing the Indian Diaspora at the Nassau Coliseum in USA shared his definition of ‘pushp’ (flower). He was referring to ‘lotus’, the symbol of ...