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Yenikapı excavations that started nearly 10 years ago. A wooden notebook, which was found in a sunken ship is considered the Byzantines’ invention akin to the likes of the modern-day ‘tablet’. Continue reading “Wooden notebook discovered in Byzantine ship at the Yenikapı excavations, Turkey”
The discovery of a Greek dedication to a church, or possibly a monastery, from 1,500 years ago is leading archaeologists to think they may have found the long-lost ruins of Ashdod-Yam, a Byzantine city known in the classical sources as Azotos Paralios. Continue reading “Archaeologists May Have Found Long-lost Byzantine City Ashdod-Yam (Azotos Paralios)”
Eastern Roman Empire (“Byzantine”) archeological finds in places most of us think almost ‘impossible’! Please follow the link to the precious work of Dr. Caitlin Green. Continue reading “A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world”
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