Construction workers clearing rubble from destroyed houses in Maarat al-Numan revealed the entrance to a mysterious ...

Byzantine tomb complex discovered under Syrian war ruins - The ancient tomb was found by a construction worker in war-ravaged ...

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

The Italian sea republics were State-dependent cities That In the centuries of the Middle Ages they acquired prosperity ...

While the High Medieval Period is famous for its warrior and martial cultures, there are some military leaders who really ...

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire ... map the general ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...

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 ...

as well as evidence of habitation from the fourth to sixth centuries A.D., when the area was part of the Byzantine Empire. During a recent expedition, archaeologists excavated a medieval dwelling ...

The Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent ... Even the British Empire, at its height, was often compared to Rome in terms of its size and power, despite the lack of any official claim to being the ...

The fall of the capital of the Byzantine Empire was a great blow but luckily led to the emergence ... the empire of Trebizond survived for over 250 years despite its small size and constant threat of ...