In 2005 I took a trip to Jordan and as a side trip I visited the little town of Madaba. There in the apse of the little church of St. George is a mosaic map made of several million tesserae. Composed in the 6th century roughly during the time of Justinian, it’s the oldest known [...]
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A Peek into a Lost City
Thursday, Mar 18th, 2010 by lars | 2 Comments
Filed under: Byzantine, Current Events, history, new discovery
Filed under: Byzantine, Current Events, history, new discovery
The Mystery of the Great Palace
Tuesday, Jan 26th, 2010 by lars | 5 Comments
Filed under: Byzantine, Current Events, history, new discovery, Uncategorized
Filed under: Byzantine, Current Events, history, new discovery, Uncategorized
On a Saturday evening in 1997 a man rushed into the offices of Alpay Pasinli- the director of Istanbul’s Museum of Archeology- and breathlessly announced that he had made a discovery. He had been charged with excavating an old Ottoman prison that stood between the Hagia Sophia and the gates to the Topkapi Palace, but [...]
Dig a hole, uncover history…
Yesterday I ran across an interesting story on CNN. A little more than four years ago Turkish workers digging a tunnel to connect Asia and Europe ( hoping to relieve some of Istanbul’s horrendous traffic in the process) stumbled across the remains of a major Byzantine port. Nicknamed Port Theodosius after the fourth century emperor [...]