When the Christian Byzantine Empire faced obliteration at the hands of the Ottoman Turks around 1400, it turned to its past, found an event that proclaimed its unique and divinely ordained purpose ...

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 ...

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress Sonja Anderson An ancient marble thoroughfare and shards of classical ...

Belisarius mosaic. Credit: Petar Milošević. CC BY-4.0/Wikimedia Commons/Petar Milosevic Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who led the armies of Justinian I ...