Greece is often celebrated for its sun-drenched islands and ancient ruins, but tucked between its olive groves and mountain villages lies another treasure: the legacy of Byzantine art and faith. The ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 12th-century Byzantine church built over a Roman settlement near Ahtopol on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.

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The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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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 ...