Travel back in time with Stacker through some of the most impressive archeological discoveries in the world, according to ...

Every year, a raft of new haggadahs promise to enliven your Passover seder. And every year, I select some for a roundup of new haggadahs.

Dame Averil Cameron, who has died aged 86, was Professor of Byzantine History at Oxford, and a leading voice in a generation ...

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously to the Renaissance ...

Dated to the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods (fifth to seventh century CE), the church is the sixth to be discovered at the site. A 1,400-year-old church was recently discovered by archaeologists ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

Archaeological excavation at the ancient city of Hippos, located near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, has revealed a remarkable Byzantine cathedral featuring a unique double baptistery and an enigmatic ...

In a new article published in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly, researchers Dr. Michael Eisenberg and Dr. Arleta ...

The Byzantine Empire is often overlooked in history. But for over a thousand years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it remained one of the most advanced civilizations in the world. This ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world. In 2014 archaeologists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE SITE of a 1,400 year old church at Nitzana National Park. (photo credit: Yaakov Shmidov / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) ...

As ancient history goes, the Byzantine Empire isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. And if the name doesn’t ring any bells, it could be because it doesn’t show up too much in popular ...