1,500-year-old Byzantine tomb complex discovered under Syrian war ruins The ancient tomb was found by a construction worker in war-ravaged Idlib ...

A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a destroyed home.

Syrian contractor discovers ancient Byzantine tomb complex during construction Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib ...

Nearly 40 years after it was discovered near the Gaza Strip, a 1,600-year-old Byzantine-era mosaic is on display to the public in Israel.

KHIRBAT BE’ER SHEMA, ISRAEL—One of the most spectacular Byzantine mosaics ever discovered in Israel was finally revealed to the public for the first time, according to a statement released by ...

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...

British newspaper uses Byzantine period synagogue as Palestinian symbol The Guardian posts an article about a new book on 'Palestinian history and culture,' embarrassingly using a picture of an ...

This Byzantine expansion of the Roman settlement seems to have been centered around a newly established monastery, which had a chapel featuring an ornate mosaic floor.

With only 19 parishes in his eparchy, the new bishop of Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix, Artur Bubnevych, hopes the missionary character of his church will be a ...

The Byzantine “monk” buried in chains near Jerusalem was a woman. Credit: Matan Chocron / Israel Antiquities Authority An archaeological discovery near Jerusalem has shaken the foundations of ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos's rule as Byzantine Emperor was brief, and his death coincided with the fall of Constantinople.

AMMAN – The early Byzantine period was a period of great economic prosperity in the southern Bilad ash-Sham. “Agriculture reached its peak during the fifth and sixth centuries AD in terms of the ...