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Byzantine church pulpit, found broken into pieces at its original location in the "Blue Chapel" on the northern ridge of the Petra city center, Jordan, dating from the 6th century. Petra was a Bishopric See in the Byzantine Empire. The pulpit...

Gold bracelet decorated with silver, pearls, amethyst, sapphire, glass, and quartz, 500-700. 3.8 x 8.2 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A map showing the extent of the Byzantine Empire and the Sasanian Empire in the 7th century.

A Byzantine book cover with an ivory icon of the crucifixion. Gilded silver with crystal, glass and sapphire cabochons. Constantinople, 11th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A map of the Byzantine empire in 1025 CE at the death of Basil II (r. 976-1025 CE).

Depiction of Byzantine Empress Irene, the wife of Emperor John II (r. 1118-1143 CE) as found in the Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul (previously Constantinople), Turkey.

An illustration from a 9th century CE manuscript, the Chludov Psalter, showing the destruction of icons in the Byzantine church. (State Historical Museum, Moscow)

This body chains of linked medallions is the largest item of jewellery to survive from the Byzantine Empire. It would have been worn draped over the shoulders and around the hips. In Greek and Roman art, body chains were often associated...

A map of the Byzantine empire and its themes and provinces in 717 CE.

The Virgin, in the center, sits and holds the child Christ in her lap. To the left behind her right shoulder, an angel carries a cross-staff. The 3 Magi (dressed in trousers, chlamyses and Phrygian caps) present their offerings with veiled...