Two tombs were found in the stone-paved apse: “At the southern tomb’s ... South of the monastery, a Byzantine farmhouse was uncovered, featuring a rectangular watchtower with a window.

The historic St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv sustained damage from a Russian air attack on Ukraine’s capital, which destroyed the ...

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site ...

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 ...

Daphni’s mosaic designers worked at a time when Byzantine artists ... with the Virgin supreme in the apse, and prophets and saints on arches, vaults and niches. The apostles and bishops ...

“Based on the presence of the cross and the pottery and glass pieces that were found, this tomb dates back to the Byzantine era,” said Hassan al-Ismail, director of antiquities in Idli ...

One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to the Byzantine Empire. And researchers might have just found it. Starting in 2021, a research team led by ...

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 ...

A construction worker has unearthed a 1,500-year-old Byzantine tomb complex in the war-torn province of Idlib, northern Syria. The discovery occurred in Maarat al-Numan, a town of strategic importance ...