The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ...

I joined Intrepid Travel‘s three-day Taste of Istanbul tour with a friend. Here’s my honest, candid review of the tour. This ...

This passage has been excerpted from Y2K, Colette Shade’s debut collection of essays about pop culture and politics between ...

The building then ascends Parthenon Hill, with displays of Greek Bronze age, Roman and Byzantine artefacts laid out between ... Throughout the years of the British Empire, scholars and explorers ...

The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. The famous ...

Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University, in the U.K., has developed a new theory regarding the ...

For years, it was believed that royals could have been buried at the famous site - but a leading academic has another theory ...

But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it might have been the grave of British soldiers who fought for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The site was unearthed in the late ...

Life in Greece and in the Byzantine Empire as a whole is a fascinating chapter of human history that not many pay attention ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...