In the series presented here, recurring motifs of gates, doors and portals introduce a dynamic tension between the tangible ...

A farmer’s 1860 discovery in Slovakia, the Monomachos Crown, may link to Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX. Featuring enameled ...

A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.

Mosaic of Byzantine Empress Theodora in the Basilica di San Vitale, in Ravenna, Italy Credit: Petar Milosevic/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 In Constantinople, circa 500 AD, a girl was born to a poor ...

When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered Italy for Justinian in 540, they re-established Ravenna as the Western capital of the Byzantine empire. Justinian and Theodora, his empress, ordered ...

Dr Benjamin Fourlas Managing Director of the Leibniz ScienceCampus 'Byzantium between Orient and Occident – Mainz/Frankfurt' ...

Mosaic of Byzantine Empress Theodora. Credit: Petar Milosevic, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 The amazing relationship between Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora is one of the most ...

Theodora, in Age of Empires Mobile, is an iconic and powerful character. In real life, she is a heroic figure in Byzantine history, who rose from humble beginnings to become Empress alongside her ...