during the mid-sixth century. These difficult times perhaps contributed to the iconoclasm that occurred in the eighth and ninth centuries in the Byzantine Empire. During this period, much ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by ... With the revival of art and learning well underway by the late 9th century, the empire entered a military and economic golden age during ...

Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of ...

An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ ... debates over sacred images in the 8th and 9th centuries, I consider Miller’s statement a challenge ...

An empire is made up of many territories governed by a central authority like an emperor. Humans have long aspired to build empires, with some dating back over 4,500 years to the end of the Stone Age.

The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery in Aigialeia in the Achaea region of Western Greece. Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short ...

the capital of the Byzantine empire. Constantinople was renamed Istanbul and it became the seat of a new rising empire. In the 15th century the city became a vibrant centre of trade and ...

It was likely produced in the sixth century in Antioch, Turkey, which was then part of the Byzantine Empire. An inscription in Greek on the bucket reads, "Use this in good health, Master Count ...

which was created there towards the end of the 9th Century. It was long influenced by Byzantine culture then was part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years before gaining its independence in the ...