Most people are aware of the song “Istanbul was Constantinople” and perhaps none better than the Greeks of Istanbul. Although at the turn of the 20th century they numbered hundreds of thousands, there ...

A detectorist who stole £3m of treasure appears in court accused of causing grievous bodily harm. The discovery is a "really rare" piece of jewellery from the early 8th Century, says a historian. The ...

BYZANTINE RITE CATHOLICS. The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church resulted from efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Eastern Orthodox Christians in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire during the ...

Byzantine Fault Tolerance ensures crypto systems run despite some nodes failing or being deceptive. It is critical for blockchains, helping them function even with sabotaged or faulty nodes. Investors ...

The experimental techniques introduced during the Yassı Ada excavation in the early 1960s by a team of young archaeologists helped revolutionize a new field of study underwater. Nautical archaeologist ...

Byzantine Greek is the dominant form of Greek written during the Byzantine Empire (AD 330–1453). The spoken language changed significantly in this period and came close to Modern Greek, but most ...

Hassan Ismail of the Idlib Museum takes notes at a Byzantine underground tomb complex, believed to be over 1,500 years old, uncovered by a contractor during reconstruction of a war-damaged house in ...

MAARAT AL-NUMAN, SYRIA—Construction workers clearing rubble from destroyed houses in Maarat al-Numan revealed the entrance to a mysterious subterranean tunnel. AP News reports that archaeologists from ...

Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus. A Syrian ...

The remains of an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex, believed to be more than 1,500 years old, have been unearthed in northern Syria. A contractor was digging beneath the rubble of a ...

The remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old was discovered in northern Syria, highlighting the rich cultural heritage of the country that has suffered massive ...

Researchers recently found one of the many lost Holy Land cities in Jordan. The team used maps and field surveys to identify the site. Experts believe the lost city Tharais wasn’t just an agricultural ...