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

With its Bronze Age origins, Ancient Roman traces, Byzantine and Norman monuments and subtropical flair, Bari makes for a fine contrast with the Renaissance grandeur and contemporary design of central and northern Italian towns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

In the early 1000s Maria Argyropoulina, a Byzantine emperor’s niece, brought gold forks to Venice for her wedding to the Doge’s son.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

Already she had read about bees and buffaloes, Bermuda vacations and Byzantine architecture.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith