Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an early Christian Basilica in Aquileia, Italy. The church flaunts a monumental ...

Averil Cameron, “The Empress Sophia,” Byzantion 45.1 (1975): 5–21, at 5–10, repr. in eadem, Continuity and Change in Sixth-Century Byzantium (London, 1981), chap. XI eadem, “The Early Religious ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval house that contained even older gold coins, which date to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great. When you purchase through links ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Speculum is the oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. The chronological boundaries of the medieval ...

When someone stashed 44 gold coins into a wall in the seventh century, they may have hoped to one day return and find their treasure again. Instead, almost 1,400 years on, the coins have been found by ...

Turkey is located near two fault lines, leaving the 1,500-year-old structure vulnerable to damage. Architects and engineers will be investigating how to best preserve it On This Day in History ...

About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage. The researchers discovered that trash ...

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A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a destroyed home. The grave site was found last month in the town of Maarat al-Numan ...

MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria — A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground ...