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1OO BYZANTINE TREASURES

We've just added a big page with jewels, ivories, crowns, icons, marble carvings and more. It's a collection of the rare and the beautiful.

click here to see them

The Nicopeia Icon

New page - Imperial standard of Constantinople - 1204 loot now in Saint Mark's in Venice

Pantokrator - Zeyrek

EXCAVATION AND FIELD REPORT

NEW ADDITION - Discoveries in an Imperial monastery

report by Arthur Megaw

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WORLD OF BYZANTIUM

when the roman empire fell in the west - it survived for more than a thousand years in the east. the greatest monument of that civilization still stands, hagia sophia. after 400 years as a mosque it became a museum. here in this website you can learn about the miraculous history of the deesis and how it was made.

new for may 2015 - a page on the nicopeia icon of the theotokos, icon galleries with 40 images and a field report on stained glass discovered in the pantokrator

  • theotokos theotokos
  • empress zoe empress zoe
  • justinian justinian
  • emperor leo emperor leo
  • seraphim seraphim
  • archangel archangel
  • emperor alexander emperor alexander
  • john chrysostom john chrysostom
  • virgin mary virgin mary
  • tekfur saray tekfur saray
  • pammakaristos pammakaristos
  • prince alexios prince alexios
  • theotokos theotokos
  • empress zoe empress zoe
  • justinian justinian
  • emperor leo emperor leo
  • seraphim seraphim
  • archangel archangel
  • emperor alexander emperor alexander
  • john chrysostom john chrysostom
  • virgin mary virgin mary
  • tekfur saray tekfur saray
  • pammakaristos pammakaristos
  • prince alexios prince alexios

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