What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

In 1204, crusaders from Western Europe stormed Constantinople, looting one of the richest cities of the medieval world. This documentary explores whether the Fourth Crusade was truly the decisive ...

One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to the Byzantine Empire. And researchers might have just found it.

In the article dedicated to the Mardaites, the Christian highlanders who maintained their autonomy between Byzantium and the Caliphate, we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry ...

The empire was split into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire, otherwise known as the Byzantine Empire. The fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire transformation ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short period between January 6, 1449 and May 29, 1453, dying in battle during the fall of Constantinople, when the capital was captured ...

An exceptional discovery has brought to light the only known contemporary representation of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine XI Palaiologos. This valuable work was uncovered ...

Panselinos has long been considered one of the great Byzantine artists of the 14th century. His true identity, however, had long been lost.

Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a critical property of distributed systems that ensures their ability to function correctly and reach consensus even when some components fail or act maliciously ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval house that contained even older gold coins, which date to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great.