A Palestinian farmer recently stumbled upon a 1,500-year-old mosaic dating to the Byzantine era beneath his olive orchard in ...

has had many lives—from a maritime empire and major seaport, to a global center of art and culture that draws approximately 25 to 30 million annual visitors to absorb its intriguing mix of Byzantine, ...

Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East studies at Mutah University—began looking for Tharais. The field project ...

Believed to have been built during Emperor Justinian’s reign (527-565 A.D.), the tile art piece is the oldest surviving map ... which dates all the way back to the Byzantine Empire. And researchers ...

Image credits: Archeology and art #3 Roman Fresco Fragment Eisenstadt, Austria 2nd century CE Landesmuseum Burgenland source: Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ...

Schisms between Eastern and Western Christianity notwithstanding, Byzantine art, architecture, philosophy and theology are woven into the very fabric of Western history.

The Byzantine medicine was heavily influenced by Christian values. credit: Wellcome Images/ wikimedia commons CC-BY-4.0 The Byzantine Empire is mostly known for its achievements in art and ...

Claire Vernon, From Byzantine to Norman Italy: Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari (New Directions in Byzantine Studies). London: I. B. Taurus 2023. xii + 269 pp. 137 ill., 4 maps.

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short period between January 6, 1449 and May 29, 1453, dying in battle during the fall of Constantinople, when the capital was captured ...

The church’s architecture is equally impressive. Its single-aisled nave, topped with a timber roof, creates a serene and intimate atmosphere. The narthex, a later addition from the 12th century, ...

Art historians had long suspected that the name — Greek for "full moon" — could have originated as a nickname for some member of the so-called Macedonian School of painting, based in Thessaloniki.