Byzantine Empire

The Museum of Byzantine Culture is hosting the exhibition "From Macedonian to Thessalian Tempi: From Rentina to Velika," showcasing discoveries made during excavations in the central Macedonian region. The artifacts include items from the castle of Rentina, the fortification wall of Cassandreia, as well as the castles of Pydna, Platamon and Velika.

The Museum of Byzantine Culture presents "From Macedonian to Thessalian Tempe: From Rentina to Velika," featuring finds from five selected fortification sites in the regions of Macedonia and Thessaly that were founded, constructed or renovated during the reign of Justinian I (527-565).

The first Hagia Sophia was built in 360 AD with a basilica layout and architectural features. In 405, Hagia Sophia was rebuilt after it was burnt down during an uprising and was reopened in 415. The monument today is the third Hagia Sophia built on the same ground, according to records.

A media drone flown by Demirören News Agency has been targeted with a shotgun in an attempt to capture images of the damage inflicted on Istanbul's Byzantine and Ottoman heritage by unlicensed structures. 

The deputy mayor of Turkey's Black Sea province of Trabzon has said Turkish officials will revise the date of the former Byzantine town's conquest by the Ottomans after celebrating it on the wrong day for 58 years. 

Remains of a 1500-year-old Byzantine church was found during excavation in Turkey's northwestern Edirne province. Click through for the story in photos...

The Byzantine and Christian Museum exhibition "Byzantium and the Others in the First Millennium: An Empire of Stability in a Turbulent Era," examines the influential role of Byzantium in Europe and the Mediterranean region from 300 to 1000 AD, a turbulent period of upheavals, in six thematic sections and with objects on loan from significant museums and cultural institutions in Greece and abroa

Alanya Castle, which was included on the UNESCO Tentative List in 2000, welcomes around 140,000 visitors a month. The castle in the southern province of Antalya's Alanya district was built in the Hellenistic era on an area of 10 hectares and is surrounded with six kilometers of walls. It hosted the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and the Ottoman civilizations for many years.

The Historical and Folklore Museum of Nikiti in Halkidiki, northern Greece, is currently hosting an exhibition of 22 lithographs by Gaspare Fossati, depicting the former Greek Orthodox Christian basilica of Hagia Sofia in the city then widely known as Constantinople.

Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) and the Sapienza University of Rome present the result of their collaborative efforts at a newly opened exhibition, titled "Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960-2000."