Hundreds of years before asbestos became ubiquitous in the construction industry, Byzantine monks used the fibrous material in plaster coatings underlying their wall paintings during the late 1100s, ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece -- Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle -- the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into the ...

WHEN, in 1881, Arthur Evans saw the fresco of the angel on Christ’s sepulcher in the monastery of Mileševo, he had the impression that he was standing before a vision. In a remote mountainous area in ...

The researchers analyzed some of the paintings on site using various techniques, including infrared, ultraviolet and X-ray fluorescence imaging. Here, UCLA archaeologist Ioanna Kakoulli examines a ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle — the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who ...