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The Qur’an is a text composed in early Arabic, whose reading is even more challenging than that of the Hebrew Bible or the ...
The Hagia Sophia mosaics are unique and represent the ultimate example of Byzantine craftsmanship. They are the only surviving examples of Byzantine mosaics from such a lengthy time period. They cover ...
Byzantine Greek is the dominant form of Greek written during the Byzantine Empire (AD 330–1453). The spoken language changed significantly in this period and came close to Modern Greek, but most ...
Story continues below this ad The sculpture representing the Digambara sect of Jainism, which bears an ushnisha or cranial protuberance on the head, is a unique feature of Tirthankara iconography and ...
The Byzantine Empire was built on the backs of the rural and urban labour ... nicknames and titles of mid-15 th-century post-Byzantine landholders in the Ottoman Balkans” The University of Birmingham ...
A young Basil I at the court of Omurtag of Bulgaria. Credit: John Skylitzes, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The Byzantine Empire is known worldwide for many things. However, few people know about ...
They identified DNA belonging to fish parasites as early as the 7th century CE, with a more consistent signal beginning in the 9th century CE, approximately 500 years before historical records ...
By the late 19th century, his collection had grown to include 43 exceptional pieces of early Byzantine, Georgian, and Kyivan enamelwork. While once deemed the finest such collection in existence, ...
Agents of Empire’s greatest delights are its details. If you want to know about 16th-century war, religion or patronage, or what a Perot wedding was like, or the circumcision party of a future sultan, ...