However, this symbol did not originate with Islam; it was adopted for the first time by the city of Byzantine (which later became Istanbul). While the Ottoman Empire ruled the Muslim world ...

Palestinian village is actually a Byzantine period synagogueDavid Cohen/Flash90 An article about a new book on "Palestinian history and culture," published in The Guardian, embarrassingly used a ...

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine ... a crown ...