Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine mosaics. While locals go about their business, busloads of tourists slip in and ...

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.

The Chora Church was reopened as a mosque in May 2024 with nearly all of its Byzantine frescoes and mosaics visible. (all photos Jennifer Hattam/Hyperallergic) ISTANBUL — When the 11th-century Chora ...

General view of the excavations with mosaics in the forefront. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority An agricultural complex of magnificent proportions and unusual architectural richness, dating back ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with the richest collection of Byzantine mosaics anywhere. While locals go about their business, busloads of ...

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 ...

"The mosaic discovered in Kiryat Gat is one of the most unique ever found in Israel," said Mark Avrahami, Head of Artistic Conservation at the Israel Antiquities Authority. A Byzantine-era monastery, ...

Recently uncovered Byzantine Empire mosaics, called by scholars the finest in the world," will receive their first American showing in the Christmas issue of Life Magazine, if the editors' current ...

A California man has been accused of smuggling a Byzantine-era mosaic out of war-torn Syria and hiring artists to restore it in order to sell it. On Wednesday, the US Attorney’s office for the Central ...