After Justinian's death, the Byzantine Empire weakened and lost territory. In 1204, during the Crusades, the Byzantines were betrayed when crusaders from the west sacked Constantinople in an ...

A guard inspects an engraved stone, originally found at a Byzantine underground tomb complex believed to be over 1,500 years old. AP Above the burial site sits a residential neighborhood of cinder ...

A Byzantine-era Christian burial site unearthed in Maarat al-Numan, Syria, contains ancient crosses, graves and artifacts, highlighting Idlib province's rich archaeological heritage of many sites.

A 1,600-year-old Byzantine mosaic from a Christian monastery in Israel, featuring 55 medallions with hunting scenes and mythological characters, was recently put on public display.

The fate of two other Byzantine-era religious monuments became the subject of fierce international debate this summer, when Turkey’s government reopened the world-famous Hagia Sophia —the ...

Coming from a Protestant background, Rider said the idea of praying to Mary and the saints was a difficult concept to grasp. But the Byzantine community was a source of information for all her ...