The cathedral’s architect, Trdat—who later repaired the dome of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople—is also mentioned without ...

Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and human ...

Hassan Ismail of the Idlib Museum takes notes at a Byzantine underground tomb complex, believed to be over 1,500 years old, uncovered by a contractor during reconstruction of a war-damaged house ...

MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria (AP) — 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… ...

In the course of a reconstruction project, stone openings were uncovered ... was a continuation of the Roman empire with its capital in Constantinople — today’s Istanbul — and Christianity as its ...

A guard inspects an engraved stone, originally found at a Byzantine underground tomb complex believed to be over 1,500 years old and uncovered by a contractor during the reconstruction of a war ...

A sign of the cross is etched into the top of a stone column at a Byzantine underground tomb complex, believed to be over 1,500 years old, uncovered by a contractor during reconstruction of a war ...

As emperor, Charlemagne undertook a program of cultural reconstruction known as the “renovatio”, which involved the collecting and copying of books that had survived barbarian destruction and ...

Hassan Ismail of the Idlib Museum takes notes at a Byzantine underground tomb complex, believed to be over 1,500 years old, uncovered by a contractor during reconstruction of a war-damaged house ...

Hassan Ismail of the Idlib Museum examines bones from a Byzantine underground tomb complex, believed to be over 1,500 years old, discovered by a contractor during the reconstruction of a war-damaged ...