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On a state visit, France's president announced the loan of the tapestry embroidered with scenes of the 1066 Norman invasion. It will return to the U.K. for the first time in more than 900 years.
It was in February 2016 that archaeologists unearthed a unique rock-carved underground Byzantine church in Nevsehir in ...
A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...
​A remarkable 1,000-year-old artefact has been discovered at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, by ...
A series of enameled gold panelsWhere it is from: Ivanka pri Nitre, a village in central SlovakiaWhen it was made: Between A.D. 1042 and 1050Related: Assyrian swimmers: 2,900-year-old carving of ...
MAARAT AL-NUMAN, SYRIA—Construction workers clearing rubble from destroyed houses in Maarat al-Numan revealed the entrance […] ...
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 ...
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 ...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The Byzantine Review is an open-access journal publishing peer-reviewed reviews of ...
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 ...
Here, AD rounds up famous buildings from around the world that you’ll be glad you’ve seen when you look back on your travels.