During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

A new study published in the Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research (BASOR) has revealed advanced construction techniques and sophisticated domestic layouts in the ancient village 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 ...

Is the Intelligence on Iran’s Capabilities Credible? Audio By Carbonatix The empire fell but didn’t have to. The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but ...

Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world, including in the Balkans, Middle East, and North ...

The Byzantine Empire is often overlooked in history. But for over a thousand years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it remained one of the most advanced civilizations in the world. This ...

Hidden for a millennium, it took a 21st-century drought to reveal the ruins of a long-lost port city. Five years after archaeologists discovered its four-kilometer-long seawall on a polluted lake 20 ...

Among the advances in medicine in the Byzantine Empire, the "miraculous" eye therapies mix old traditions and divine ...