Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

Born around 530 AD into an aristocratic family in Constantinople, Empress Sophia rose to prominence upon her marriage to ...

The life of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610–641), his military triumphs, reforms, and the establishment of Greek as the ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many ... there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the ...

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Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease. This has prompted discussions over whether ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many ... plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which millions of people died. Studies show that there ...

From Greece comes the discovery of the first-ever portrait of the last-ever Byzantine Emperor ... it dates to the 15th-century fall of the great empire and offers a vision of the man painted ...