Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and ...

Zeno was the Byzantine Emperor who witnessed the end of the Western Roman Empire. He is known for being buried alive by his ...

During the question session following his talk on his book Napoleon's Egypt, Prof. Cole makes a brief remark (around 38:40) about Byzantine Egypt that caught m ...

A legal ruling by Egypt’s Ismailia Administrative Appeal Court on 28 May ignited tensions between the state and the Greek ...

Orthodox leaders beyond Egypt and Greece remain concerned that the monastery property’s changed status will interfere with the monks’ prayer and work.

Even so, at the turn of the 4th century, Alexandria’s light as a radiant, world-city of knowledge with its Great Library, a place where Jews, worshippers of the old Egyptian, Greek and syncretic ...

A mosaic map of an ancient Egyptian settlement is going on display where it was found — in an industrial-park parking lot in Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced today (Sept. 29 ...

When he set foot in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, he befriended a member of the imperial family, ... Byzantine (Akhmim, Egypt), 5th-7th Century.

An adjacent small-scale bronze bust of an African child, also from early Byzantine Egypt, cements the reach of African Byzantium, which included some Black Africans. Pieces in conversation.

LUXOR, EGYPT—German archaeologists excavating a tomb at the necropolis in the Deir Beikhit area of Draa Abul Naga unearthed a collection of 29 gold coins dating to the fifth and sixth centuries ...