The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

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 ...

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress Sonja Anderson An ancient marble thoroughfare and shards of classical ...