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MAX RITTER, The Byzantine Afterlife of Procopius’s Buildings, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 75 (2021), pp. 143-170 ...
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 ...
The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...
A discussion of the Byzantium Empire, the longest lasting empire in the western world which began in 330 A.D. and collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453. May 26, 2023 at 10:00 AM 7 minute read Commentary ...
Ancient Trash Mounds From Byzantine Empire Reveal How Disease and Climate Change Ravaged Ancient Civilization Published Mar 26, 2019 at 6:09 AM EDT Updated Mar 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM EDT ...
Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.
In Greek Orthodox Christianity, which was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire that lasted from 312 to 1453 A.D., some factions were against sacred images and some in favor of them.
The $950-million, 56-month contract covers 13.6 km of bored, sunken tube and cut-and-cover tunnels, track and four stations. The April 2009 completion date is now pushed back to October 2011. With ...
Anti-Blackness and transphobia are older than we thought In the Byzantine Empire, ideas of race and gender were deeply intertwined.
(Inside Science) -- By examining the literal dustbins of history, archaeologists have now shed light on how a 125-year "little ice age" might have wreaked havoc on the Byzantine Empire -- an ...
Newfound pieces of a sixth century bucket, unearthed at the site of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial in England, are helping researchers learn how the vessels were used.