A Byzantine city in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis has been found in striking condition, opening a rare window onto life in a desert ...
A silver coin minted in Constantinople during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD) has been discovered at ...
In the Dakhla Oasis, deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, an Egyptian mission has exposed a well-preserved Byzantine-era ...
Zeno was the Byzantine Emperor who witnessed the end of the Western Roman Empire. He is known for being buried alive by his wife.
Archaeologists uncovered a long-forgotten, 1,600-year-old city in Egypt that includes preserved watchtowers, a church and a ...
The fourth-century residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by Egypt on ...
Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who helped reclaim huge swathes of the Roman ...
A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...
The 'Ain al-Sebil site in the Dakhleh Oasis had an organised village plan, with a fortress, watch towers and a fourth-century ...
The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...