Located in a fertile valley northeast of Irbid, Abila secured its place among the ten cities of the Roman Decapolis through its strategic location, thriving economy, and distinct identity — so much so ...

Spotting a rare foreigner in the southern Syrian city of Nawa, Khalil approaches with a business proposal: bring him a “very ...

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 ...

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The map is located in Madaba, Jordan, and depicts a total of 157 sites—many of which have yet to be found. One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to ...

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic.. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three groundbreaking surveys. Designed with input from over a thousand scientists worldwide, ...

The Roman Empire scored 0.46 and Han China scored 0.48. On such a scale, the number "1" represents complete inequality. For comparison, they note that currently the Gini coefficient for the U.S ...

Ms. Cargill-Martin is a writer and classical scholar. The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories. They love its ideals of hard, unbending masculinity. And they ...

The Byzantine Empire preserved the intellectual heart of Greece and Rome, providing us today with concrete proof as to what became the very bedrock for the eventual Renaissance and the establishment ...

AMMAN — Cities like Gadara (Umm Qais) and Gerasa (Jerash) were part of the pottery trade/production network in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. Four types of fine pottery could be assigned: The ...