Anna Komnene, the 11th-century Byzantine princess who defied medieval norms to become one of the first female historians with ...

The Byzantine Empire (also known as Byzantium or the Eastern Roman Empire) was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that ...

The proposal had a certain logic, for although Madaba by this time was a dusty, obscure outpost in the Ottoman Empire, during the Byzantine period it had been a thriving Christian city.

Construction workers clearing rubble from destroyed houses in Maarat al-Numan revealed the entrance to a mysterious ...

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