Archaeological excavations in modern-day Spain have revealed a Byzantine-era fort complete with a church that was once used ...

A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery in ...

Most people are aware of the song “Istanbul was Constantinople” and perhaps no better than the Greeks of Istanbul themselves.

Dame Averil Cameron, who has died aged 86, was Professor of Byzantine History at Oxford, and a leading voice in a generation ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. But amid all the expected Viking imagery and nods to the Crusaders has ...

About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage. Archaeologists recently investigated ...

As ancient history goes, the Byzantine Empire isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. And if the name doesn’t ring any bells, it could be because it doesn’t show up too much in popular ...