The so-called “Byzantine Empire” called itself Rome. But how Roman was it really? By 700 AD, Latin had faded, Greek dominated ...

The Normans launched a century-long struggle against the Byzantine Empire that fundamentally redrew the medieval map of ...

When the Western Roman Empire fell, its navy disappeared with it. But in the East, Roman naval power did not vanish. It ...

Sometimes it is easy to forget why we study history. Of course, we use the past to understand the present; but also, ideally, we learn from it too. What a shame, then, that there is no space in the ...

Mehmed, who was just 21 when he conquered Istanbul, put the Ottoman Empire on the path of great transformation. Sultan Mehmed II was just 21 years old when he defeated the Byzantine Empire, ...

In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened Africa & Byzantium, its first Byzantine-focused exhibition in nearly 20 years. According to the museum’s press release, the show promises ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

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The finding was made during an excavation at the Harbor of Eleutherios, one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Archaeologists discovered a pair of ...