Belisarius was the Byzantine military genius behind Justinian's conquests. His incredible victories were overshadowed by an ...

Was the Byzantine Empire a continuation of Ancient Greece, or something entirely new? In this video, we trace the Hellenization of the Eastern Roman Empire—from language shifts and classical education ...

A 1,500-year-old map has led humans to discover a lost city from the Byzantine Empire. The Madaba Mosaic Map built during Emperor Justinian’s reign (527-565 A.D.) shows a total of 157 sites that were ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient Byzantine mosaic in Dara, revealing the Greek-influenced city's military and religious ...

The Byzantine Empire, which lasted for over a millennium, is one of history's most fascinating empires, not just for its longevity, but for its territorial evolution. Originating from the Eastern ...

A guard inspects an engraved stone, originally found at a Byzantine underground tomb complex believed to be over 1,500 years old. AP Above the burial site sits a residential neighborhood of cinder ...

A construction worker has unearthed a 1,500-year-old Byzantine tomb complex in the war-torn province of Idlib, northern Syria. The discovery occurred in Maarat al-Numan, a town of strategic ...

The Byzantine Empire, which began in the 4th century AD, was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople — today’s Istanbul — and Christianity as its official religion.

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

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Mustafa comes from—if we put this kind of sectarian ethnic map, he would be labeled as within the opposition masses of Damascus, living in a small neighborhood. These neighborhoods were the hotbed of ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...