The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

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 in ...

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Among the advances in medicine in the Byzantine Empire, the "miraculous" eye therapies mix old traditions and divine intervention.

The once common idea that the lights went out on classical and Western civilization when Rome fell in 476 C.E. has long since been debunked, but Brownsworth weighs in to illustrate that the Roman ...

The Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire | RealClearScience Byzantine civilization, the eastern Roman empire whose capital was at Constantinople, is mostly known today for its spirituality and ...

In 1167, the Battle of Sirmium became a brutal showdown between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary for control ...

The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons. Understanding some of the fatal weaknesses ...

Istanbul makes an exotic first impression: Boat traffic on the Bosporus sends waves brushing up against the shores of both Europe and Asia as enormous mosques and monuments from previous empires stand ...

Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept ...