Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

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 ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to ...

Five gold Byzantine coins discovered in the ruins of a house in northern Bulgaria are leaving archeologists with more ...

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and ...

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Dame Janet “Jinty” Nelson, who has died aged 82, was a leading historian of early medieval Europe, a professor at King’s ...

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Investing in a Gold IRA presents both opportunities and considerations for retirement planning. A Gold IRA, or individual ...

Houses and businesses across the Greek capital incorporate—or obscure—structures spanning the city’s ancient, Byzantine, medieval and Ottoman eras Demetrios Ioannou Discovered in Valencia in ...