The so-called “Byzantine Empire” called itself Rome. But how Roman was it really? By 700 AD, Latin had faded, Greek dominated ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

(The Conversation) — Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The ...

About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage. Archaeologists recently investigated ...

The Ottoman Empire spanned more than 600 years. The history is laden with the legacy of the empire in the Middle East and ...

In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened Africa & Byzantium, its first Byzantine-focused exhibition in nearly 20 years. According to the museum’s press release, the show promises ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...

Technically, Spain is the dynastic heir to the Byzantine imperial claim through Andreas Palaiologos’s 1502 will. The modern Spanish monarchy is sometimes described in historical circles as holding a ...