In 944, Sayf al-Dawla established himself as the head of the independent Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo. Sayf’s rule over his ...

In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

And yet, The-One-Who-Never-Showers is hard put to conceal the fact that he’s still basking in the glow of his recent victory over the Byzantine army at Gallipoli. "The public sees only the ...

If the effort works to drastically reduce the tank's modernization timeline, it could be applied to other efforts, the Army's ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Credit: Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons After the tremendously successful reign of Basil II, the eleventh century signaled a turn of fortunes in a far more negative direction for the Byzantine ...

Dr. Yuval Baruch, deputy director of archaeology at the Israel Antiquities Authority, emphasized the artifact’s significance, ...

Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late ...

Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late ...