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

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

For the word puzzle clue of daughter of a bear keeper in this city theodora married justinian i in 525 became the byzantine empires most powerful woman, the Sporcle Puzzle Library found the following ...

Aleppo, Syria, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, with a history spanning over 4,000 years.

Pope Francis named a New Mexico pastor as bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy, apostolic nuncio to the United States Cardinal Christophe Pierre announced on Friday. Father Artur Bubnevych ...

Turkey scrubs up its baths to keep hammam tradition alive For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they mostly fell out of use with the advent of running water, many in Turkey ...

During recent renovations, an inscription in Medieval Greek was found on a stone incorporated into the house’s structure, pointing to the existence of a Byzantine-era church beneath the dwelling. This ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

It's a city inhabited for 11,000 years and has seen empires come and go, including the Greeks, Romans and Ottomans.