The Byzantine Empire, often overshadowed by its predecessor, the Roman Empire, and its successor, the Ottoman Empire, was a remarkable civilization that spanned over a millennium. Its contributions to ...

The Byzantine army was among the most powerful and effective military forces in the world from the 7th to the 12th centuries/ ...

The ruins of Byzantine culture in Constantinople in today's Istanbul remind the world of the great Byzantine Empire of ...

The bathhouse, attached to what researchers identify as a Byzantine bishop's residence, represents far more than personal luxury. According to excavation director Assoc. Prof. Gökçen Kurtuluş Öztaşkın ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

Thanks to politics and the passage of time, grand monuments of the 1,000-year Byzantine Empire are easy to miss in the modern metropolis. Tourists take photographs in the Byzantine-era Chora Church, ...

In 1907 about 18 young men, heads of their households and all under 30 years old, gathered to start a church in Northeast Minneapolis. Ethnic Rusins, they had emigrated from an east European region ...

Archaeologists uncovered a rare Byzantine-era gold hoard in Susita National Park in Israel’s Galilee region, shedding new light on the region’s history during the tumultuous Sassanid-Persian invasions ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

The exhibition focuses on the multi-cultural nature and the story of institutionalization of Byzantine studies in Turkey. With the exhibition, many materials, such as archive documents or videos, can ...

Congratulations to my dear friend Sharon Gerstel, an art history professor at University of California at Los Angeles, on her Runciman Award, which she just got for her book, "Rural Lives and ...

Many key Byzantine sites and pieces of infrastructure retained their importance under the Ottomans and into the modern Turkish Republic, even as their appearance, use, and meaning was transformed.