He said the church was in Dhat Ras village, 93 miles south of Amman, Jordan’s capital. The discovery means “all of Jordan was part of the Byzantine empire, contrary to previous belief that it ...

Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Israeli archaeologists have revealed an elaborately decorated Byzantine church dedicated to an anonymous martyr that was recently uncovered near Jerusalem.

The primary stage of the church’s construction took place during the reign of Emperor Justinian (527-565 CE). Later, during the reign of Emperor Tiberius II Constantine (574-582), an exquisite ...

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 archaeological site of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian settlement of Tharais - lost for centuries - has been found in ...

At the time the church was built, the Byzantine Empire controlled Israel, and an inscription in the church states that the church was expanded during the reign of Emperor Flavius Tiberius, who ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Under fluttering strings of Greek and Byzantine flags, three men raised a party tent on the terrace of the 5th century Osios David church one recent Saturday, hoping ...

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 ...

Saint Gregory the Illuminator is depicted in a ancient Byzantine mosaic in Pammakaristos Church, Istanbul, Turkey. The church was built between the 11th and 12th centuries.