A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a ...

Next month, the auction house will offer the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments, dating back to 300 to 800 ...

Hellenization under Alexander the Great saw many people assimilated into Greek culture, including the Hellenistic Jews.

The result is to rethink the nature of the Late Byzantine period, and to question the ways in which we have come to divide historical periods into 'good' or 'bad'. To save content items to your ...

It was used as a church in the Byzantine period. Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert canyons and rugged mountains lies an ancient treasure, the stone city of Petra. A UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

Professor Jon Adams from the University of Southampton led the expedition and told the Smithsonian, "We dived on one wreck, a merchant vessel of the Byzantine period dating to the tenth century.

It reappraises the dramatic first decades of Byzantine North Africa (533-550) and discusses the ethnography of Moorish Africa, the diplomatic and military history of the imperial administration, and ...