The mosaic was found when the ruins of the old Byzantine church were cleared in 1884. Locals were excited, but the discovery was slow to attract the attention of the Greek Orthodox Christian ...

Recognised as the oldest surviving cartographic depiction of the Holy Lands, the Madaba Mosaic Map was crafted during the ...

Archaeologists have located Tharais, a lost Byzantine city featured on the 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map in Jordan. The ...