Buried beneath desert sands for over a millennium, a hidden monastery has emerged in Israel—revealing how early Christian ...

A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

The Byzantines heavily influenced the Islamic scientists, who preserved and expanded ... Astronomy and mathematics were also scientific fields that flourished in the Byzantine Empire. Numerous ...

Mosaic of the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, VI century. Public Domain The position of women in Byzantine society is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire. It was an empire ...

Permanent occupation began 2,000 years ago with Nabataeans, continuing to the Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic and modern inhabitants ... village was formed and developed during the Roman Empire which ...

Perhaps, then, the rise of Islam should be read "in reverse ... launches a full-scale invasion of the Byzantine Empire. For twenty-five years, a relentless back-and-forth of blitzkrieg campaigns ...