However, what many people do not know is that they were active much further east, too. The Vikings played a surprising yet significant role in the Byzantine Empire, where they formed the Varangian ...
Byzantine art painting depicting the mourning for the death of Christ found in 1164 at Nerezi, North Macedonia. Credit: Public Domain The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) in Paris is to open a new ...
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was one of the most powerful and enduring civilisations in world history. It began in AD 330 when the Roman Emperor Constantine I declared ...
Chanting helps to calm the mental chatter by focusing the mind on sacred sounds. The rhythmic repetition of mantras like “Om,” “Gayatri Mantra,” or “Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra” stabilizes the thought ...