Under Emperor Justinian I, the Byzantine Empire briefly regained parts of the Western Roman Empire, including Italy, North Africa, and Spain.

A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a destroyed home.

The empire that Justinian inherited (dark orange) and the one he left at his death with added territories (light orange). Credit: Neuceu / Wikimedia Commons Ironically, Belisarius’s first ...

Residents drive past the war-damaged ancient market of Maarat al-Numan, near the site where a Byzantine underground tomb complex, believed to be over 1,500 years old, was uncovered by a contractor ...

Essays on Institutions, Politics, and Political Events in the Later Roman Empire The period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West, and the ...

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 ...

Excavators determined Tharais was a religious hub of the Byzantine empire.

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.

A guard inspects an engraved stone, originally found at a Byzantine underground tomb complex believed to be over 1,500 years old and uncovered by a contractor during the reconstruction of a war ...

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 Byzantine tomb complex ...