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A Stunning 1,600-Year-Old Byzantine Mosaic Uncovered In Israel’s Negev Desert Is Now On Display For The First Time
In 1990, excavations of an ancient monastery in the Negev Desert of southern Israel revealed a sprawling mosaic dating back ...
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Gorgeous 1,600-year-old Byzantine monastery mosaic unveiled in Israel
The exquisite Be’er Shema mosaic, one of the most beautiful examples of Byzantine monastery art ever discovered in Israel, is ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
This Bewildering Byzantine Bucket Stumped Archaeologists for Decades. Now, They’ve Finally Discovered Its Purpose
Fragments of the bucket were first found at England's Sutton Hoo burial site in 1986. New research has revealed that the ...
The Media Line5d
Mosaic Masterpiece From Byzantine Era Unveiled in Southern Israel
This is a unique mosaic from the Byzantine period,” said archaeologist Shaike Lender, who helped lead the original excavation. “It was clearly made by the hand of a true artist.” For years, the mosaic ...
The Atlantic9y
Hearing the Lost Sounds of Antiquity
“So you can take chanters with the original [Byzantine era] music and put them in a studio that has no acoustics,” Kyriakakis said. “They can sing a chant, and then we can process it ...
The Washington Post3y
Anti-Blackness and transphobia are older than we thought
Remembering this longer history of racism and transphobia should remind us of how deeply ingrained these ideas are — and how much effort it will take to root them out. The Byzantine Empire (or ...
CBC.ca9y
Mapping the sound of Byzantine churches
So had music transcribed by Ioannis Arvanitis and Spyridon Antonopoulos from original Byzantine sources, and they brought in local chanters, Dimos Papatzalakis, Spyridon Antonopoulos ...