
Tureta: The fortress of Emperor Justinian?
The fortress of Tureta on the Konati Islands, located on the northern stretches of Dalmatia, south of Zadar and west of Sibenik in Croatia, dates back to late Antiquity. It […]
The fortress of Tureta on the Konati Islands, located on the northern stretches of Dalmatia, south of Zadar and west of Sibenik in Croatia, dates back to late Antiquity. It […]
The construction and modernization of Israeli infrastructure across fields, suburban blocks, highways and streets has seen an unprecedented wave of ancient structures and mosaics surface over the past few decades. […]
Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia. In the Christian era, as early as the fourth century, important […]
A very rare Egyptian streetscape mosaic in the Kiryat Gat Industrial Park, in Israel, will be open to the public for viewing tomorrow on October 1st. Two years ago the […]
Over the past few days I have been reading reports about what could quite possibly be the rediscovery of the long-lost tomb of the Maccabees. The famed Maccabees were rebels […]
One of the most amazing sights or structures in Istanbul today lies beneath our feet. In the subterranean depths below the ‘first hill of Constantinople’, where once stood a grand […]
In the middle of February this year, a colleague brought to my attention an amazing discovery unearthed in Israel. Immediately I thought, it was another floor mosaic, pottery or […]
In 1994, a French team of archaeological divers conducted a salvage inspection in the eastern harbor of Alexandria in the hope of finding the site of the famous lighthouse of […]
This is a small section of the stunning Byzantine mosaic discovered near Aluma, Israel. Occasionally I will deviate from the narrative to present you (the reader) something current I have […]