A 1,600-year-old Byzantine-era mosaic from a Christian monastery was ... The ministry described the art piece as "one of the most impressive mosaics discovered in the south of the country." ...

An intricate mosaic dating back 1,600 years has been unveiled in Israel nearly 40 years after it was first discovered, the ...

or a Byzantine-era mosaic on your farm? Everyday people joined archaeologists and art conservators in finding some of the year’s most compelling discoveries. Among them was a Van Gogh self ...

The exquisite Be’er Shema mosaic, one of the most beautiful examples of Byzantine monastery art ever discovered in Israel, is now on display for the first time. This 1,600-year-old masterpiece, ...

Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof of the power and achievement of Byzantine religious art between the 4th and 15th centuries A.D. Five years ago a task force financed by ...

Eventually, his son’s axe struck something unusually hard. It turned out to be a large mosaic floor from the Byzantine era. Al-Nabahin was able to identify the tiles thanks to an internet ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

Long considered provincial copies of Byzantine art, less rich than the Moorish splendors of the Moslem mosques to the south, and primitive by comparison to the French Romanesque and Gothic ...

To learn the most about Thessaloniki's history, you'd best be served by visiting this museum after the Archeological Museum, which has exhibitions that predate the Byzantine era. Fortunately ...

“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 ...