Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...
A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...
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Archaeologists used 1,500-year-old map to uncover a lost city buried under the desert in Jordan
A centuries-old mosaic map has helped archaeologists identify what may be a long-lost Byzantine city hidden beneath the desert landscape near the Dead Sea in Jordan. Researchers believe the settlement ...
A 13-year-old kid delivered a history lesson to the brains at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On his first trip to the famed museum, Benjamin Lerman Coady detected something was amiss on a 6th century ...
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