Based on the presence of the cross and the pottery and glass pieces that were found, this tomb dates back to the Byzantine ...

The net result was two gigantic historic forces coming face-to-face: the Byzantine Empire was diminishing in size and power, and the Ottoman Turks were consolidating and growing stronger.

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

Coins from the hoard were minted by the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor ... from childhood until their image appears the same size as their father, who is depicted with a long beard." ...

At its peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched from southern Spain to ... years that followed and supposedly caused a decline in ...

"One can actually follow his sons growing up – from childhood until their image appears the same size as their father ... a picture of the long-gone Byzantine Empire. “The discovery of ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...