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The Phantom Time Hypothesis: The Greatest Fiction Ever Written?
... History.” The paper claims that a conspiracy between the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Holy Roman Emperor ... with the Eurocentric motives, it would mean that the early Middle Ages could be written as a time of greater ... . Niemitz, Hanz-Ulrich Ph.D. 2000. Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist? ...
B. B. Wagner - 10/07/2020 - 18:35
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Apollonia, The Once Eminent Greek City
... Church, Apollonia ( Guilio / Adobe Stock) An important Byzantine-era church , St Mary’s, graces the archaeological park and in 2006 an early Greek temple was found by an international team of ...
Ed Whelan - 19/10/2019 - 02:05
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An Example of Unity: A History of Constructing and Reconstructing Religious Sites in Azerbaijan
... of mosques specifically, but of all religious sites. The Early Temples and Monuments of the Alban People in Ancient Azerbaijan Largest Byzantine monastery in Istanbul to be converted into mosque ...
FuadAZE - 05/05/2016 - 03:54
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Remnants of 18th Century Ship May Provide Clues to Revolutionary-era Shipbuilding
... Cherabin, English pirate ship that pillaged for the Queen Byzantine shipwrecks reveal advanced shipbuilding techniques ...
Mark Miller - 07/01/2016 - 03:46
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The Legacy of Armenia: Trade, Metallurgy, and Forging of Precious Metals of the Ancient World
... Mountain of Iron and Lead Armenian historians Faustus the Byzantine, Moses Khorenatsi, and Lazarus Pharpensis have ... processed in the region. According to Faustus, the Byzantine part of Armenian Taurus and part of the ancient ... and King, “Annals of the Kings of Assyria” Faustus the Byzantine, “History of the Armenians” (4th-5th century) ...
Lilit Mkhitaryan - 06/03/2016 - 14:21
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Monks, Hermits and Ascetics: The Little-Known History of Women in Desert Asceticism
... is a recurring theme in the first and oldest layers of Byzantine history. Scenes from the Lives of the Desert Fathers (Thebaid), 1420. ( Public Domain ) As the early Christian church began to flourish under ... Greco-Roman world, so too did the ascetic movement. The early Christian hermits, ascetics and monks known as the ...
MartiniF - 23/08/2016 - 16:29
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Discovery of 1,000 Sealings Reveals an Ancient City’s Devotion to the Graeco-Roman Pantheon
... an important contribution to understanding the history of early Christianity in this region." The excavations in the ... Keber Tepe was obviously an extremely important place very early on. Doliche reached its greatest extent later, in the Roman and early Byzantine periods." Mosaic floor of a Roman thermal bath ...
ancient origins - 12/12/2017 - 01:56
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How Two Jewish Rabbis Respected and Protected the Ka'bah of Islam
... texts written in the Arabic alphabet. At least two of the early Arabic petroglyphs discovered, cited dates in an ... were weakened by incessant warfare between the Christian Byzantine and Zoroastrian Persian empires. The architectural ... 12 centuries before the rise of Reform Judaism in the early 19th century Germany. Although most Jews today are no ...
Rabbi Allen Maller - 02/05/2021 - 22:57
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War Pigs: A Flaming History of Nature’s Cutest Creations in Battle
... who wrote that the Romans were using these strategies as early as 275 BC in the Battle of Beneventum. He stated: ... was the one who chronicled the usage of pigs by the Byzantine or Eastern Roman armies. Khusrau I, King of Persia, ...
Sahir - 22/08/2022 - 18:51
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New Mosaics Add to the Intrigue of Israeli Synagogue Story
... 5th Century, Late Roman site. Jodi Magness, professor of early Judaism at the University of Northern Carolina, Chapel ... synagogue,” Magness told UNC News . Extraordinary Byzantine Mosaic Unearthed in Israel Remains of ...
Alicia McDermott - 15/07/2015 - 00:34
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Two Aksumite Churches Reveal Complex Religious History of East Africa
... journal Antiquity , securely dated churches from Aksum’s early Christian days have been extremely difficult to find, ... seemed to have been intentionally built to duplicate Byzantine sacred architecture. The Roman emperor and ... Africa. They also show what a powerful cultural force early Christianity was, as it cast a wide net and spread its ...
Nathan Falde - 08/12/2022 - 21:55
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Late Antiquity Little Ice Age Triggered Plague, Decline of Empires, and Migration
... peoples and political upheavals in China.” Byzantine Emperor Heraclius submitting the last important ... May Have Rocked the Cradle of Civilization New Study says early humans migrated into Europe due to warming climate The ... invaded Italy and took control from 568 to 774. And the early Slavic languages, whose homeland is not known, spread ...
Mark Miller - 09/02/2016 - 21:50
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The Magnificent Treasures of Sutton Hoo, The Final Resting Place of Anglo-Saxon Royals
... These artifacts also allow us to gain some insights into early Anglo-Saxon England, at least with regards to its ... site is believed to have been used during the 6th and early 7th centuries AD. During the 16th century, would-be ... AD. For example, the set of silver bowls, which are of Byzantine origin , shows that the Anglo-Saxons were in ...
dhwty - 10/05/2019 - 01:58
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The Kievan Rus’ – When Vikings and Slavs Cooperated to Shape History
... Oleg soon launched an ambitious raid on the heart of the Byzantine Empire : Constantinople. In 907 AD, with the Slavic ... be today? Top image: Calling of the Varangians, part of early Kievan Rus' history ...
Aleksa Vučković - 01/07/2020 - 22:56
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Slave Trade and Exotic Animals Made the Ancient Port of Adulis Rich
... the fall of the Western Roman Empire by trading with the Byzantine Empire. However, in the 8 th century, the Aksumite ... best-known structure that remains at the port is that of a Byzantine style Christian Church. The Mythical Land of ... a chronology of the Eritrean Red Sea port of Adulis (1st–early 7th century AD) . Journal of African Archaeology, ...
Ed Whelan - 28/09/2019 - 02:05
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The Winged Hussars: An Eerie and Flamboyant Cavalry That Devasted Their Enemies
... cavalry units from the Balkans that were recruited by the Byzantine Empire during the 10 th century. In the centuries that followed, the lands of the Byzantine Empire , including the Balkans , were slowly ... served no longer existed. In any case, it was during the early 16 th century that the first instances of Serbian ...
dhwty - 24/03/2019 - 12:57
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Roman Law and Its Lasting Influence On the Legal System of Europe
... of Louisiana. The Roman Laws of the Twelve Tablets In the early stages of Roman Law development, the Romans began to ... was derived. Corpus Juris Civilis Law: Created by a Byzantine Emperor and Still Relevant in Courts Over 1,500 ... Byzantine emperor, Justinian I, was in office during the early sixth century AD he even set up a commission to review ...
John S. Richardson - 12/06/2021 - 02:03
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Queen Cynethryth of Mercia: Victim of a Medieval Smear Campaign?
... royal bloodlines who might seek the throne. During the early medieval period in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms , it was ... across Europe at the time. The only exception was the Byzantine Empress Irene , who was possibly the inspiration ... in December 796. This was a highly unusual practice in early medieval Europe, as the role of witness on official ...
Meagan Dickerson - 17/11/2021 - 13:57
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Ten Amazing Caves of the Ancient World
... traces of human presence date back to the middle of the Early Stone Age around 70,000 years ago. The Devetashka cave ... suggested that the mines have been used by refugees as early as the Roman period all the way to the Second World ... of which there are around 800, date from the Late Roman, Byzantine, and even Early Arab periods (2nd–7th century ...
aprilholloway - 27/04/2015 - 00:16
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2,700-Year-Old Assyrian Wine Press Found in Northern Iraq
... Wine Press Discovered in the Negev Desert Industrial Size Byzantine-Era Winery Unearthed in Israel In addition to ... an interlocking system of canals, which were built in the early seventh century BC. The canals supplied water to ... used and admired for centuries. Sennacherib represents an early example of this pattern. The rock reliefs of Khanis ...
Nathan Falde - 04/11/2021 - 13:59