Basilica of St Denis is dedicated near Paris, the first fully Gothic church. 1345: Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of ...

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex ...

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

Byzantine tomb complex discovered under Syrian war ruins - The ancient tomb was found by a construction worker in war-ravaged ...

A contractor in northern Syria stumbled upon the remains of an underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be more than ...

Based on the presence of the cross and the pottery and glass pieces that were found, this tomb dates back to the Byzantine ...

A contractor found a tomb complex dating back to the Byzantine empire in Syria's Idlib province, just as many residents have ...

The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias ...

Greek fire was the mysterious weapon used by the Byzantines to destroy enemies and prospective invaders, keeping the Empire strong.