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

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and ...

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 ...

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 ...

"You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out." While preparing for construction of a new neighborhood ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern ...

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

By Alimat Aliyeva In Luxembourg, a group of archaeologists has discovered a cache of Roman <a target=_blank href ...

In this time period, which lasted from the early 4th century to the early 7th century, Israel was part of the Eastern Roman Empire—now commonly referred to as the Byzantine Empire. The period ...

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