The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

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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 ...

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century, a new study finds.

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

an expression of flourishing urban society within the late Byzantine Empire. As a political and administrative provincial centre of the Byzantine state, Mystras became a unique intellectual, cultural ...

‘The Basic Issue Is a Lack of Political Will’: Land Rights and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka – Interview with Academic Mahendran Thiruvarangan ...

Governor Landry is coming under increasing scrutiny from his conservative supporters for his refusal, thus far, to back ...