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

How many of us knew that Italy, the epicenter of Roman Catholicism, hosts some of the most exquisite and beautiful Byzantine ...

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 ...

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 ...

But with the eventual fall of the Byzantine Empire, the recipe was lost. During an excavation of two early Mycenaean ...

However, that was the theory; in practice, things were very different because, seeing that he had such a powerful force, Bohemund changed his target and set it on the hated Byzantine Empire. He ...

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." ...