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Showing posts with label Byzantine. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 2, 2014

TURKEY: 1500-year-old basilica discovered under Lake Izn

A church which dates back to the year 500 CE was unearthed during excavations conducted under in the depths of Lake Iznik in Turkey’s western province of Bursa.

 

Byzantine experts are still carrying out research to to find out who the church belonged to. They have predicted the ruins to remnants of St. Peters Church, which was mentioned in some Christian books, said Sahin.

Monday, January 27, 2014

'Major' Byzantine-Era Church With Stunning Mosaic Unearthed In Israel (PHOTO)

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 An ancient Christian church complete with stunning 1,500-year-old mosaics has been found in Israel. | Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations prior to the construction of a new neighborhood in Israel have turned up the ruins of a 1,500-year-old Christian church with a beautiful mosaic.

Turkey's Deputy PM signals conversion of Hagia Sophia to mosque



Monday, November 25, 2013

Mount Athos - Getting away from it all is fine, but no man is an island

 

To visit the monasteries on Mount Athos is to step back a thousand years, the closest one can get now to the sounds and sensations of the Byzantine Empire. But it is also, more prosaically, like going back to a public school of the 1950s, and the experience I and a university friend had last month fell somewhere between the two.


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