Ancient shipwrecks have shone new light on how and when the Eastern Roman Empire began its 1,000 year decline and eventual ...

A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a ...

Silk production and trade became an important part of the Byzantine economy from the 6th century on. The 4th and early 6th centuries were a time of active long distance trade. During the year 306 CE, ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire ... during which emperors ruled as civilians from the city officially named New Rome but commonly called Constantinople (“Constantine ...

Houses and businesses across the Greek capital incorporate—or obscure—structures spanning the city’s ancient, Byzantine, medieval and Ottoman eras Demetrios Ioannou Discovered in Valencia in ...

Paul Magdalino, Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective. The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine’s Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (Brill Research ...

There are quite a few literary and cinematic works about the First Crusade, and in most of them, beginning with the anonymous ...

It appears to be from the Byzantine Empire, and other coins like it are ... by a Crusader army that sacked and occupied the ...

This book offers the first synthesis of its history between the seventh and the mid-fifteenth century, a period coinciding with the existence of the Byzantine Empire which, as heir to the Roman Empire ...