Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered a 1,500-year-old skeleton of a woman who was buried while still wearing iron ...

Cities like Gadara (Umm Qais) and Gerasa (Jerash) were part of the pottery trade/production network in the Late Roman and ...

Researchers found the remains of the ascetic individual bound in chains. Small metal plates and a tiny cross were found near the abdomen of the skeleton.

During the Byzantine period, the city became a major religious center, attracting worshipers from across the Roman Empire. The remains of the “monk” at the time of the find. Credit: Israel Antiquities ...

It was used as a church in the Byzantine period. Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert canyons and rugged mountains lies an ancient treasure, the stone city of Petra. A UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

Several burial sites were found around the excavation site, including a gravestone that read “the sweetest child of them all” and a Byzantine period graveyard. A recent excavation in Pergamon ...

Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 385-394 (10 pages) Five mosaic inscriptions adorned the halls of the Byzantine-period monastery at Ḥura, four of them in Greek and ...

Mastiha is made exclusively on the Greek island of Chios since antiquity. It derives from the resin that seeps from the bark of Mastiha trees ...

Cesaretti P. and Guadalupi G. 2005. Ravenna Gli splendori di un Impero. Bologna. Dan Y. 2006. Studies in the History of Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine Period. Jerusalem. Di Segni L. 1990. The Greek ...