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 ...

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

T he Byzantine Empire (also known as Byzantium or the Eastern Roman Empire) was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after it collapsed. With its base at Constantinople (modern-day ...