byzantine

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Historical accounts describe widespread disease during the Byzantine era, but many suspected plague burial sites have lacked firm proof.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

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

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

In the foreground, the midwife, known from Byzantine tradition as Salome, meets Joseph’s eyes as she steadies the water he pours into the baby’s bathtub.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 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

The wind swept over the crusted snow into my Byzantine face, which was the face of my grandfather and of the American girl I had once been.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides