You’ve heard about Hagia Sophia’s famous dome. But what about the miraculous column, the Viking graffiti, and the portrait of Byzantium’s worst emperor?


Bibliography

Ken Dark and Jan Kostenec, Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople (London, 2019)

W. Eugene Kleinbauer et al., Hagia Sophia (London, 2004)

Rowland J. Mainstone, Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure, and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church (London, 1997)

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