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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

Byzantine

Illustrative: In this August 12, 2017 photo, James Alex Fields Jr., center left, holds a black shield in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist rally took place. Fields was later charged with second-degree murder and other counts after authorities say he plowed a car into a crowd of people protesting the white nationalist rally earlier in the day. (Go Nakamura via AP)
March 5, 2021, 8:16 am
Why the US far-right is obsessed — but very wrong — about the Byzantine Empire
White supremacists and QAnon enthusiasts often display medievalist imagery in rallies and riots; what is behind their adoption of the archaic Eastern Roman Empire?
By Roland Betancourt
Trash mounds on the outskirts of Elusa (Guy Bar-Oz/University of Haifa)
July 27, 2020, 10:01 pm
Seeds from 1,500-year-old Negev trash pits show a world on the brink of collapse
Study of 10,000 seeds from Negev viticulture settlements illustrates how plague, climate change and socioeconomic depression in booming empire’s periphery point to its decline
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Eagle, symbol of the Byzantine Empire, discovered at a Byzantine-era church complex in Ramat Beit Shemesh, October 2019. (Asaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
October 23, 2019, 11:41 am
Opulent 1,500-year-old church to mystery ‘glorious martyr’ found at Beit Shemesh
Site yields rare intact crypt of anonymous martyr immortalized by Greek inscription; Jerusalem museum exhibit of findings showcases massive collection of delicate glass artifacts
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Conservation manager Yana Vitkalov cleans a mosaic at the 'Burnt Church' at the Hippos-Sussita Excavation Project at the Susita National Park, summer 2019. (courtesy)
July 25, 2019, 6:27 am
6th-century inscriptions near Galilee may show Christians’ fading Greek literacy
So far, ‘Burnt Church’ site at ongoing Hippos-Sussita Excavations Project has revealed three texts — all of which were misspelled and had grammar errors, say archaeologists
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Detail of a mosaic depicting the biblical story of Elim, Exodus 15:27, discovered in 2019 during continuing excavations at a 1,600-year-old synagogue at Huqoq, led by UNC-Chapel Hill Prof. Jodi Magness(Jim Haberman. (Courtesy, UNC-Chapel Hill)
July 1, 2019, 9:28 pm
First artistic depiction of little known Exodus story uncovered in Galilee
Two biblical scenes recently uncovered at a fifth-century synagogue point to a preoccupation with the end of days, and perhaps a rebellious spirit
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Byzantine-period flax wick and copper casing, used to light lamps some 1,500 years ago, was discovered in the 1930s American Colt expedition to the Negev site of Shivta. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 10, 2018, 12:40 pm
Tiny 1,500-year-old flax lamp wick illuminates ancient Jewish law
Discovered in hitherto unpublished 1930s excavations in the Negev desert town of Shivta, the wick sheds light on how people banished darkness in the Byzantine era — and before
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Emma Maayan-Fanar's reconstruction on top of the face of Jesus found in a Byzantine-era North Church at Shivta in the Negev. (Dror Maayan)
November 15, 2018, 11:17 am
Jesus image, hidden in plain sight at Negev church, is one of earliest in Israel
Youth with ‘short curly hair, a prolonged face, large eyes and an elongated nose’ depicted in faint painting found in circa 6th century Byzantine church in ancient village Shivta
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ancient Byzantine-era winepress discovered in Zippori National Park. (Zvika Tzuk/National Parks Authority)
June 10, 2018, 6:33 pm
Unique Byzantine-era winepresses unearthed in roofed water cistern in Tzippori
The only examples of their kind discovered to date, they are a testament to a flourishing wine trade in the interfaith city
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Excavating the mosaic floor at a Byzantine-period church complex found in Ramat Beit Shemesh, 2017. (Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 20, 2017, 2:10 pm
Hands-on education as Israeli teens excavate 1,500-year-old Byzantine church
Ahead of Ramat Beit Shemesh expansion, discovery of wonderfully preserved compound that was ‘swept under the carpet’ by later Islamic-period agriculture
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Antiquities recovered in a police raid on a Palestininan home in Beit Ula, near Hebron on May 10, 2017. (Police Spokesperson)
May 11, 2017, 11:42 am
Police recover stolen ancient coins, lamps, other antiquities near Hebron
Some items dated to Hellenistic period over two millennia ago; trove said valued at tens of thousands of dollars
By Jacob Magid
A hoard of Byzantine coins found near Ein Nakuba by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists in 2016 and shown to the press on March 19, 2017. (Ilan Ben Zion/Time of Israel staff)
March 19, 2017, 5:58 pm
Hoard of coins from 1,400-year-old Byzantine site tells story of Persian invasion
As Jewish and Sassanid troops marched on Jerusalem in 614 CE, Christian residents of village on main pilgrimage route hid their valuables; now, nine copper coins hidden in a niche have been recovered
By Ilan Ben Zion
Illustrative: The Samaritan high priest, Abdullah Wassef Tawfiq, stands with his brother Husney Cohen inside his living room with a home-made 'sukkah' made from fresh fruit for the holiday of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, in Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus, on October 18, 2016. (Dov Lieber / Times of Israel)
October 19, 2016, 7:43 pm
Inside the Samaritan high priest’s fruity sukkah, literally
While Jews use holiday to spend time outdoors, this ancient Israeli community, now numbering just 750, builds its festive huts indoors, and not out of wood, but fruit
By Dov Lieber and Iacopo Luzi
Kibbutz secretary Jossef (Joha) Engel near ruins dating back to the 8th century BCE at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 17, 2016, 8:52 am
The kibbutz outside Jerusalem built atop an ancient palace
Ramat Rachel’s Archaeological Gardens tell the story of the Roman legionnaires, Judean kings and Assyrian conquerors, and others who lived and built there
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Aerial photograph of the 2,700-year-old farmhouse found near Rosh Ha'ayin (Griffin Aerial Imaging)
December 30, 2015, 2:40 pm
2,700-year-old farmhouse unearthed outside Tel Aviv
Byzantine monastery with colorful mosaic, ancient silver coins also found nearby at site next to Rosh Ha’ayin
By Ilan Ben Zion
A jihadist woman wielding a Kalashnikov rifle at a training camp near Aleppo, Syria. (screen capture: YouTube)
April 10, 2015, 8:46 pm
Female jihadis train, misfire in new video
Clip features niqab-clad women chanting extremist slogans, firing assault rifles at site of ancient church
By ToI Staff
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