Archaeologists have uncovered a fascinating relic of ancient administrative practices during excavations at Abel Beth Maacah, ...

Ancient shipwrecks ... of the Western Roman Empire, while Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire.

which was first claimed by the Dorians (ancient Greeks) in the 9th century B.C., is home to ruins from the Hellenistic (Greek empire built by Alexander the Great), Roman and Byzantine (eastern ...

In its deep, dark waters, ancient shipwrecks are scattered across ... The earliest is from the 800s, during the Byzantine Empire, and the rest largely date from when the sea was under Ottoman ...