The grant opening of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the center of Orthodox Christianity for a millennium was held on ...

Explore the dramatic rise of Hagia Sophia as Emperor Justinian transforms the ruins of Constantinople’s greatest church into a marvel of Roman engineering. From the deadly Nika riots that left 30,000 ...

The ancient world's grandest cathedral is giving up its secrets after nearly 1,500 years as archaeologists discover traces of the 'last Roman emperor' in its stones. Built in 532AD in ancient ...

The period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West, and the emergence of the Eastern or “Byzantine” empire, with a distinctive culture that ...

Aquileia, a small town in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy, is now a modest place with barely 3,000 inhabitants. However, its past is among the richest and most significant in ...

“By the law of nature these things are common to mankind — the air, running water, the sea, and consequently the shores of the sea.” — Emperor Justinian, A.D. 530 If federal judges tell George Lucas ...

Researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an early Christian Basilica in Aquileia, Italy. The church flaunts a monumental ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. An extremely rare ancient ...