George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

In the Byzantine Empire of the medieval period, it was still olive oil, wine, wheat, honey, and fish sauce that were traded the most. In ancient Britain, the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and the Arabian ...

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the Romans and the Eastern Roman Empire ... we ask if the Byzantine Empire was the heir to the Ancient Greeks.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

He writes: "My aim was to produce a clear account of the long history of the Byzantine Empire based on the latest research in ... the slow-changing pace of this state that always had a foot in an ...

A unique Byzantine basilica that dates back to the ... continued excavations on another large archaeological find - an ancient Crimean Tatar cemetery - that is partly located on the territory ...