The intricate work discovered at the Be’er Shema Mosaic in Negrev is now on public display for the first time.

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

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

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 ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

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

there are no borders, because the Holy Mountain has an ecumenical nature" seeking to embrace all, said Archimandrite Eliseos, the abbot of Simonos Petra. This links back to the Byzantine Empire, he ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals' historical animated series, we examine the cultural and intellectual legacy of the Byzantine Empire and ask whether it can truly be considered the heir to ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

The Byzantine Empire was built on the backs of the rural and urban labour ... the empire’s fluctuating ‘borders’. Beyond exploring the contribution of rural communities and non-elites to modes of ...