The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and ...

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Upon completing their study, the researchers were able to reconstruct the life, death, and burial ceremony of the child, who ...

The goal of Nicaea—unity in faith among Christians—remains, but the methodology has changed almost 180 degrees and, if we are ...

The concept of "waqf" claims that any land under Muslim control must remain so indefinitely. Jihadists use this to promote their opposition to Israel.The post Why Hamas will never agree ...

Four years ago, archaeologists from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Conservation (BLfD) discovered a child’s tomb at ...

In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

Fragments of the bucket were first found at England's Sutton Hoo burial site in 1986. New research has revealed that the ...

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 ...

Historian Victor Davis Hanson chronicles the parallels between empires of the past and America today on walls and border ...

Mason Versluis, an XRP community figure and founder of Gold Squad, presented a sheet last August of hypothetical price requirements for varying cross-border payment volumes. Citing the Bank of ...