Ancient gold coins discovered by archeologists in Israel reveal new details about the Byzantine Empire.
who hailed the discovery as a rare glimpse into an ancient past at a tense time of violent conquest.
The Byzantine Empire, centered on what is now Istanbul, was a continuation of the Roman Empire, after its collapse in the West following the sack of Rome by barbarian tribes in 410 CE. The eastern empire would last another 1,000 years but lost several of its provinces to Muslim conquests of the 7th century — around the time the coins were stashed in the wall.
"One can actually follow his sons growing up — from childhood until their image appears the same size as their father, who is depicted with a long beard."Now in a national park, Banias has played an important spiritual role in several cultures. Firstly a Canaanite shrine to the god Baal, it was renamed in the Hellenistic era after Pan, the half-man, half-goat god of shepherds and fertility.
Banias is in the area known as the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967and later annexed, promoting settlements and a thriving tourism industry. Former
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