Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire ... a capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. It was under Constantine that the Empire was powerful and prospered. The first settlements ...

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

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery ... stations" Sonja Anderson The fifth-century artifact was found in the ruins of a structure that may have been connected ...

The Byzantine Empire had been steadily losing land since the 7th century and vanished entirely after the battle in 1453. The painting is the last known portrait of any Byzantine emperor created ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting ... the Western world awoke and arose. Some kinder 20th-century scholars have offered modest corrections to the ...