byzantine

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

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

The fine gold mosaic, executed by northern Italian restorers of Byzantine churches, responds to the light like a living skin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 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

As Elie astutely points out, even an artist as outwardly estranged from religious life as Warhol carried with him the lessons of the Polish Byzantine Order of his youth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

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

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith