Hundreds of ancient coins, oil lamps and gold jewelry have been discovered in Israel, mysteriously thrown away centuries ago in a Byzantine garbage dump. The excavation site is located on the ...

Today, we might think nothing of throwing on a Byzantine cross with a blazer and a t-shirt (or, you know, a puffer, a baby bump, and even more jewelry) but the history behind it, from French nuns ...

“I felt jewelry was crying out for stories of real ... The history of the Ottoman and Byzantine era runs through my veins, like lifeblood.” When Bıçakçı works on a piece, there are no ...

The exhibition has opened in Athens, highlighting the golden luxury of Byzantium, which served as an inspiration for Italian fashion ...

In 2023, researchers announced the discovery of a burial site within the Byzantine-era structure, initially identifying the ...

Life in the Byzantine Empire was ­famously sumptuous. The show makes this evident with everyday objects (earrings, combs, lamps, books, coins, jewelry) as well as artworks. One of the standouts ...

Shady fig trees cluster near crumbling Byzantine walls and sweeping Ottoman palaces, remnants of the empires that conquered and lost this strategic point on the Bosporus Strait, which formed the ...