I held an impossibly tiny pendant in my hand, the face as small as my thumbnail. Within the silver bezel was an entire mosaic world – tiny pieces of colourful stone creating the tree of life, with ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

15:17, Sun, Aug 30, 2020 Updated: 15:17, Sun, Aug 30, 2020 The Madaba Map, or the Madaba Mosaic Map, is a sixth century AD depiction of the Holy Land, believed to be among the oldest known portrayals ...

Not just a religious centre, Tharais was also economically robust. A remarkable archaeological breakthrough has brought the lost city of Tharais, a Byzantine-era settlement, back into the spotlight.

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...

AMMAN — The sixth-century mosaic map of the Holy Land is not only an example of the Byzantine period artistry but a primary historical source about the regional geography. Towns and ecclesiastic ...

AMMAN — The Madaba Map in the St George Church, 30km southwest of Amman, can be traced back to the mid-sixth century AD, according to British Art Historian Beatrice Leal. “We don’t know the exact date ...

26 January 2010 MADABA - Madaba is set to be the first city completed under the third tourism project, but investors say their future remains "uncertain" as the healthy visitor flow into the mosaic ...