Was the Byzantine Empire a continuation of Ancient Greece, or something entirely new? In this video, we trace the Hellenization of the Eastern Roman Empire—from language shifts and classical education ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient Byzantine mosaic in Dara, revealing the Greek-influenced city's military and religious ...

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

The Byzantine Empire, which dates to the 4th century, was a continuation of the vast Roman Empire with its capital in Constantinople — now Istanbul — with Christianity as its state religion. 3.

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.

BYZANTINE RITE CATHOLICS. ... It sponsored drama productions and concerts, conducted Ukrainian language classes, and organized adult literacy drives. Parish growth following World War II occurred ...

Palestinian village is actually a Byzantine period synagogueDavid Cohen/Flash90 An article about a new book on "Palestinian history and culture," published in The Guardian, embarrassingly used a ...

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 ...