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		<title>Replica of Byzantine ship to sail next year in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yenikapı 12, a replica of a ship built during the Middle Ages that was unearthed during metro project excavations, will be launched at sea next year within the scope of a project coordinated by Istanbul University. One of 36 sunken ships found during archaeological excavations carried out as part of Istanbul’s metro project will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=2380&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Thomas Asbridge and The Crusades on BBC 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most popular articles on the blog has always been a book review by Malaise Ruthven of Thomas Asbridge&#8217;s book about the Crusades &#8211; The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land. Tonight on BBC 2 we have the opportunity to watch Dr Asbridge as he retraces the steps of the first crusaders. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=2372&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5,000 Spectators Watch Age-old Byzantine Rites At Tarpon Springs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice little story from the St Petersburg Times, published Jan 7 1948 &#8230; of course this is St Petersburg USA! Tagged: Byzantium<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=1936&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 62,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=2369&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An insightful art exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York City is providing answers to one of the central mysteries of Western civilization. How did Christianity evolve from a persecuted religious sect under the Roman Empire into a global faith and one of the world’s greatest patrons of the arts? from The California [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=2353&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turks sense dawn of new era of power and confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Turkish President, Abdullah Gul came to Britain on a successful three day State Visit. Turkey is a rising power and this was demonstrated in a number of ways this week. Perhaps the two most relevant being its increasingly important role in the crisis in Syria, and also its economic strength when compared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=2343&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Byzantine Prayer Box Found in Jerusalem Dig</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The miniature box adorned with cross dates from 6-7 century AD. It contains two icons surrounded by gold leaf. By Gil Ronen First Published in IsraelNationalNews.com 27 Oct 2011 Archaeologists in Jerusalem discovered a miniature Christian prayer box that dates back to the sixth or seventh century CE. The box was found at the &#8220;Givati [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=2328&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photographs of early Christian churches in the Cappadocia region on view at Penn Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[.. if you happen to be in Philadelphia &#8230; The grandeur of Byzantine Christian art —preserved through the ages in early Christian churches in the Cappadocia region of Turkey —is the focus of a large-scale photography exhibition at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium, an exhibition of 13 color photographs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=2322&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qsar-Libya a Byzantine oasis in the Libyan desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These mosaics are from the sixth century. Some lovely pictures from the ancient church of  Qsar-Libya. (the ancient city of Theodoureas). The city was rebuilt by Justinian in the name of his wife Theodora. The curious thing about this archaeological site is that even being part of a church, the mosaics are representations of animal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=1973&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria upheaval halts race to reveal secrets of ancient fort</title>
		<link>http://mybyzantine.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/syria-upheaval-halts-race-to-reveal-secrets-of-ancient-fort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists despair of completing excavation work on site before it is flooded by new dam. By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson Published in the Independent Friday, 14 October 2011 Anti-government protests gripping Syria have forced archaeologists to abandon excavation work on ancient ruins on the banks of the Euphrates, with the little-explored sites now at risk of being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybyzantine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6562516&amp;post=2274&amp;subd=mybyzantine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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