A museum exhibit in Cyprus is featuring ancient religious relics, which include mosaics and wall frescoes that were stolen ...

A museum that opened this week in Cyprus showcases priceless early Christian artworks, many of which were recovered after being stolen from churches in the north of the war-split island.The Byzantine ...

Cyprus is showcasing Christian artworks that were recovered after being stolen from churches in the Turkish-occupied north of the island.

Constantinos Vafiadis, a professor of Byzantine art in Athens who was not involved in the studies, said he found merit in the nickname theory and Astrapas link, even though it appeared more than ...

Even before the war, the mosaic was well documented by archaeologists as a rare work of art that had survived iconoclasm - where use of religious images was banned by Byzantine emperors throughout ...