byzantine

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Historical accounts describe widespread disease during the Byzantine era, but many suspected plague burial sites have lacked firm proof.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

In antiquity, the city of Tyre was at various times Phoenician, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

At the edge of Europe, for example, he goes to the great Byzantine church of the Holy Wisdom, Hagia Sophia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

The most serious was the fire stared next to the ruins of the Byzantine Church of St George.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

Byzantine domes hovered over the city like rising balloons.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover