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

Greece dismissed Turkey's criticism over a map presented as a gift to Patriarch Bartholomew, saying the gift was "purely ...

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 ...

Palestinian village is actually a Byzantine period synagogueDavid Cohen/Flash90 An article about a new book on "Palestinian history and culture," published in The Guardian, embarrassingly used a ...

we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry soldiers who guarded the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire and were recruited from the peasants of the border provinces. Today, ...

Some suggested one or more of the graves could be the remains of a Byzantine king. The burial sites have been dated to approximately 575 AD, a time when the Roman Empire had already withdrawn from ...

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 ...

Kilitbahir Castle, one of the fortresses built by Fatih Sultan Mehmed after the conquest of Istanbul on both sides of the Dardanelles ... time to prevent European states from aiding the Byzantine ...

the second city of the Byzantine Empire, from the late 13th century to the early 14th centuries. For centuries, the paintings of Manuel Panselinos have been considered a high point of the ...

Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Thrace became part of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire ... with the exception of the zone of the Straits (Bosphorus and Dardanelles) along with ...