The fresco’s creator remains unknown but likely hailed from Mystras and had a direct acquaintance ... final heroic yet tragic chapter of the Byzantine Empire, explain that the family had close ...

From Greece comes the discovery of the first-ever portrait of the last-ever Byzantine Emperor ... it dates to the 15th-century fall of the great empire and offers a vision of the man painted ...

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 ...

Built in the 12th century under Norman rule, it boasts Italy's largest Byzantine-style mosaics ... the capital of the surviving Roman empire in the east. They span over 6,400 sq m and contain ...

To seal the treaty, Stephen’s son Prince Béla would marry Manuel’s daughter Maria. In 1163 Béla moved to the Byzantine capital in Constantinople to learn more about the ancient empire he was now set ...

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AIGIALEIA, GREECE—ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine ... from life by an artist from the town of Mystras, where Constantine lived before he became emperor.

From these early beginnings, the surviving Byzantine Empire would inherit and modify its own Christmas traditions ... In his account, Cremona said that the Christmas celebrations took place in a ...

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He ran the regime's lucrative drugs empire - worth a staggering £1.9 billion ... blackened rooms around the Tishreen presidential palace, and yesterday rebel fighters sought revenge on the ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short period between ... The fresco is believed to be the work of an artist from Mystras, a town south of the Aigialeian monastery ...