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Researchers Used a 1,500-Year-Old Map to Find a Lost City
Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...
How a 1,500-year-old map led researchers to a hidden city
Archaeologists have located Tharais, a lost Byzantine city featured on the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan. The ...
1,500-year-old map helps archaeologists piece together the lost city of Tharais
The team started looking for a city named Tharais, which dates back to the Byzantine Empire. The work started in 2021, and ...
1,500-Year-Old Madaba Mosaic Map Helps Archaeologists Find Lost City Of Tharais In Jordan
Recognised as the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Lands, the Madaba Mosaic Map was crafted during the ...
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Greece Brushes Off Turkey’s Criticism Over Historic Map Gift to Ecumenical Patriarch
Greece dismissed Turkey's criticism over a map presented as a gift to Patriarch Bartholomew, saying the gift was "purely ...
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The oldest map of the Holy Land is actually a magnificent mosaic
A detail of the Madaba Map reveals how its makers imagined ... obscure outpost in the Ottoman Empire, during the Byzantine period it had been a thriving Christian city. In 1884 the newly settled ...
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Ukrainian chef fights to save his country’s cuisine
We were finally on the map,” he says. It may not have been such a big deal ... and it suffered further devastation and destruction following the decline of the Byzantine Empire and the Mongol invasion ...
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Archaeologists unearthed an ancient defense network hidden underground for 1,500 years.
Archaeologists have found the remains of a Roman fortress in northern Sinai. The discovery illuminates the Roman Empire’s easternmost defensive lines in Egypt.