A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, ...

The coin shows two figures on one side, one of whom is dressed in the distinctive robes of a Byzantine emperor. But Svetlana Velikova, an archaeologist at the museum who is leading the excavations ...

The newly discovered portrait, the only contemporary of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos XI. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Greece . Based on stylistic criteria, the work can be ...

AIGIALEIA, GREECE—ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration work at the Holy Monastery of Pammegiston Taxiarchon ...

In response, Justinian I (reign 527 to 565), the Byzantine emperor, ordered the construction of a massive cathedral, also to be called Hagia Sophia. Completed in 537, ...

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