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Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and his second wife Maria of Antioch

Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and his second wife Maria of Antioch

Italy (c. 1150) Found in the Vatican Library, Rome. Artist: Unknown Manuel I Komnenos  was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean. His reign saw the last flowering of the Komnenian restoration, during which the Byzantine Empire had seen a […]

Thracian Treasures: Golden Phial & Amphora With African Faces Found In Bulgaria, Europe?

Thracian Treasures: Golden Phial & Amphora With African Faces Found In Bulgaria, Europe?

Most of what we know about the ancient Thracians comes from surviving ancient Greek and Roman sources. The Thracians were an ancient ethnic group that inhabited parts of what is today European Turkey and the extreme north of Greece, but the vast majority of Thracian land is in what is today Bulgaria. Although Thrace as an […]