The so-called “Byzantine Empire” called itself Rome. But how Roman was it really? By 700 AD, Latin had faded, Greek dominated, pagan temples were gone, and even the great bath culture of antiquity had ...

The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.

The coins are thought to have been buried around the time of the Muslim Conquest of the Levantine Byzantine Empire in 635 AD. A cache of 44 pure gold coins from the Byzantine era was recently ...

The Avars rose as a dominant ethnic group in Europe, where their conflicts with the Byzantine Empire reshaped the landscape ...

At Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, having pored over a group of Byzantine textiles from the 4th to 12th centuries with curator Elizabeth Dospel Williams, I took away this general rule for ...

The most impressive discovery among the artifacts, which spanned the Roman and Byzantine eras, was a well-preserved Roman marble sundial.

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 ...

Thinking of pursuing graduate studies in Byzantine history and culture? Join us for a Virtual Open Day to learn more about the MA in Byzantine Studies and the Latin East at the University of ...

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 ...

Eastern Christians have historically not shared the concern about the faithful not fully understanding the Real Presence. Father Mick Kopil, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows in Valparaiso, Indiana, a ...