Cappella Romana has a long-standing interest in the Byzantine Empire -- its cultural context and long arm of influence after the Turkish conquest in 1453. Indeed, one purpose of the 11-year-old vocal ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A few steps from Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a small opening leads to an underground cistern where clerics have found the perfect place to practise chants ahead of ...

Before the civil war in Syria destroyed ancient religious sites — and scattered some of the oldest Christian communities in the world — Jason Hamacher made several trips there, taking photos and ...

It doesn’t have a beat, the kids can’t dance to it, and it’s sung in a dead language, but Gregorian chant seems to be the hottest thing in sacred music right now. The wildly popular videogame “Halo 3” ...

Against the backdrop of southern Oman's lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by just 2% of the ...

When discussing the rongo-rongo script of Easter Island, Andrew Robinson states that the direction of reading is unusual, though not unique, with lines being read from alternating sides of the tablet ...