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

We meet under a winter sun by the stone walls of a castle, which has towered over Gaziantep since the Byzantine era.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

In the foreground, the midwife, known from Byzantine tradition as Salome, meets Joseph’s eyes as she steadies the water he pours into the baby’s bathtub.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

The room was round, and capped by an absurd Byzantine cupola surrounded with windows, through which one could see all the rooftops of the city and feel close to the clouds.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende