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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

He is particularly interested in the later Byzantine Empire, after the tenth century. The 600 years following the reign of Constantine the Great (who, in the early fourth century, converted to ...

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 ...

Although it is not unusual to discover coins during excavations, these ones were located on the floor of a 10th-century house ... area was part of the Byzantine Empire. During a recent expedition ...

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 ...

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 ...