The Republican candidates for president debated Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Cain’s flat rate for income, corporate, and sales tax would replace the Byzantine U.S. income tax ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

Theodore Christou receives funding from Queen's University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding partner of The ...

Thanks to politics and the passage of time, grand monuments of the 1,000-year Byzantine Empire are easy to miss in the modern metropolis. Tourists take photographs in the Byzantine-era Chora Church, ...

I was in Paris during my sophomore year of college when I started reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I made my way through the first volume, immersed in the decadence of the late ...

Experts are calling them hybrid Byzantine ring pommeled swords. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Turkey have ...