Byzantine mosaic from Khirbat Be’er Shema, Israel, featuring 55 ornate medallions, has been unveiled for the first time.

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Scientists have finally 'solved the puzzle' of a sixth century Byzantine bucket uncovered at the historic site in Suffolk.

Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia glowed under floodlights, its minarets soaring towards the night sky. Turkey’s powerful and radical Islamist President ...

The Department of Justice formally asked a federal judge to break up Google’s ad-tech empire Friday after an April court ruling found the company illegally monopolized the digital advertising ...

Once home to a Greek people who established trade ties there beginning as far back as 1,300 BC, Cappadocia ... or exile to Greek territories in Europe. The Byzantine Empire survived as a political ...

During the Byzantine period, the city became a major religious center, attracting worshipers from across the Roman Empire. The remains of the “monk” at the time of the find. Credit: Israel Antiquities ...

Some suggested one or more of the graves could be the remains of a Byzantine king. The burial sites have been dated to approximately 575 AD, a time when the Roman Empire had already withdrawn from ...

Dr Helen Gittos, a historian at the University of Oxford, thinks the graves belonged to British men who fought for the Byzantine Empire ... the Byzantine army in AD 575 and fought Sasanians ...

The Byzantine Empire, which constituted the eastern half of the Roman Empire, outlasted the western half by a thousand years before it finally fell to the Ottoman Turks onslaughts in 1453.

A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI Palaiologos. This valuable work was uncovered ...