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Antioch on the Orontes (/ ˈænti.ɒk /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized:Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) [ note 1 ] was a Hellenistic Greek city [ 1 ][ 2 ] founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. [ 3 ] One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, [ 2 ...
The Church of Antioch (Arabic: كنيسة أنطاكية, romanized:kánīsa ʾanṭākiya, pronounced [ka.niː.sa ʔan.tˤaː.ki.ja]) was the first of the five major churches of the early pentarchy in Christianity, with its primary seat in the ancient Greek city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey). The earliest record of the church of ...
The Antioch mosaics are a grouping of over 300 mosaic floors created around the 3rd century AD, and discovered during archaeological excavations of Antioch (Antioch on the Orontes, in modern Turkey) between 1932 and 1939 by a consortium of five museums and institutions. About half of the mosaics are now in the Hatay Archaeology Museum in ...
Antioch in Pisidia – alternatively Antiochia in Pisidia or Pisidian Antioch (Greek: Ἀντιόχεια τῆς Πισιδίας) and in Roman Empire, Latin: Antiochia Caesareia or Antiochia Colonia Caesarea – was a city in the Turkish Lakes Region, which was at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Aegean and Central Anatolian regions, and formerly on the border of Pisidia and Phrygia ...
Ignatius of Antioch (/ ... If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the ...
Facade of the Church of St Peter, originally built ca. 1100 by Crusaders and rebuilt in the 19th century. The Church of Saint Peter (also known as St. Peter's Cave Church and Cave-Church of St. Peter; Classical Syriac: Knisset Mar Semaan Kefa (romanization); Turkish: Aziz Petrus Kilisesi) near Antakya (), Turkey, is composed of a cave carved into the mountainside on Mount Starius with a depth ...
The “Ancient Marvels” Facebook page is dedicated to interesting posts displaying human and natural artifacts from across history. The post 100 Archaeology And Ancient History-Related Pics For ...
The Judgement of Paris is the theme of a mosaic from the early second century AD, discovered in 1932 in Antioch. [1] It is one of the most important mosaics from the ancient city, which was located a short distance from the site of modern Antakya (Antioch). The mosaic is normally housed in Paris at the Louvre (Ma 3443), although it has been ...