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

In the early 1000s Maria Argyropoulina, a Byzantine emperor’s niece, brought gold forks to Venice for her wedding to the Doge’s son.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

His biography in the Suda, a Byzantine encyclopedia dating from the tenth century ce, states that Eratosthenes’ father was named either Aglaos or Ambrosios.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro