When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

Belisarius was the Byzantine military genius behind Justinian's conquests. His incredible victories were overshadowed by an ...

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

The Byzantine Empire, which lasted for over a millennium, is one of history's most fascinating empires, not just for its longevity, but for its territorial evolution. Originating from the Eastern ...

A 1,500-year-old map has led humans to discover a lost city from the Byzantine Empire. The Madaba Mosaic Map built during Emperor Justinian’s reign (527-565 A.D.) shows a total of 157 sites that were ...

Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.

The map is located in Madaba, Jordan, and depicts a total of 157 sites—many of which have yet to be found. One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to ...

The map is located in Madaba, Jordan, and depicts a total of 157 sites—many of which have yet to be found. One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to the ...

Map with the recently located byzantine city of Tharais. Credit: M. R. Al-Rawahneh Tharais’s strategic position on the trade route between the Moab plateau and the Dead Sea and its large church ...

In 1204, an army of Venetians and Frankish knights captured and sacked Constantinople, the ancient capital of the Byzantine Empire. History has remembered this event as the culmination of the ...

Military campaigns during the Byzantine-Bulgarian War. Credit: Kandi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Basil also transformed the finances of the Byzantine Empire by instituting a more efficient tax ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short period between January 6, 1449 and May 29, 1453, dying in battle during the fall of Constantinople, when the capital was captured ...