Ancient shipwrecks have shone new light on how and when the Eastern Roman Empire began its 1,000 year decline and eventual ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

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 ...

Credit: MapMaster / Wikimedia Commons As we were saying, Anna knew him because he was in Constantinople… as he had tried before in his youth, by force of arms: in 1080 Bohemond accompanied his father ...

The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine Europe in the mid-15th ... the empire had entered into terminal decline and was frequently referred to as the "sick man of Europe." ...