Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare Byzantine-era gold coins discovered at the Hyrcania archaeological site in the northern Judean Desert. (photo credit: COGAT ...

Archaeologists uncovered the long-forgotten Byzantine settlement of Tharais. A team of archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the long-forgotten Byzantine settlement of Tharais, offering ...

The Byzantine Empire, often overshadowed by its predecessor, the Roman Empire, and its successor, the Ottoman Empire, was a remarkable civilization that spanned over a millennium. Its contributions to ...

Manama, Feb. 10 (BNA): The Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), in collaboration with the Embassy of the ...

Last spring, a Palestinian farmer was planting a new olive tree when his shovel hit a hard object. He called his son, and for three months, the pair slowly excavated an ornate Byzantine-era mosaic ...

As is often the case in Greece, digging the ground usually brings up archeological sites. Thessaloniki, Greece’s second metropolis, recently witnessed the discovery of a major ancient site while ...

Salman al-Nabahin, a farmer from Gaza's Bureij refugee camp, was trying to plant new olive trees in his orchard but something underneath the soil was standing in his way. He investigated for three ...

For as long as pilgrims have flocked to the Holy Land, locals have apparently been peddling them souvenirs and trinkets. In a rare find, Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered the tools used some 1 ...

Barag D. 1970. Glass Vessels of the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Palestine. Ph.D. diss. The Hebrew University. Jerusalem (Hebrew; English summary, pp. I-VIII). Barag D. 1978. Ḥanita, Tomb XV: A Tomb ...

Salman al-Nabahin is a Gaza farmer who accidentally discovered one of the most preserved archaeological finds in recent memory. Six months ago, Nabahin and his son were puzzled as to why some of the ...

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