The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have made a surprising discovery that challenges our understanding of early Christian practices in ...

The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

an expression of flourishing urban society within the late Byzantine Empire. As a political and administrative provincial centre of the Byzantine state, Mystras became a unique intellectual, cultural ...

As the accompanying photos show, Florida and humanity at large, have suffered many banes of existence, from cholera to yellow ...