This video explains why the term 'Byzantine Empire' might not accurately reflect the true history and identity of the Eastern Roman Empire. It discusses how language shapes our understanding of the ...

Up until the last installment, I have been writing a series titled "Learning from Byzantine Civilization."Although the ...

The Byzantine Empire] The Roman Emperor Theodosius I had his two sons rule the empire separately, which led to the Roman ...

In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened Africa & Byzantium, its first Byzantine-focused exhibition in nearly 20 years. According to the museum’s press release, the show promises ...

They began to blow with blacksmiths’ bellows into a furnace where there was fire, and from it came a great noise. There was also a brass [or bronze] tube, and from it came much fire against a ship, ...

A small diptych, made around 1500, includes a panel devoted to Saint George painted in the local Ethiopian style on the left, and a panel in the Byzantine gold-ground style devoted to the Virgin, ...

Trust Turkish filmmakers to resurrect the Byzantine Empire to play the much-needed enemy once every decade. Satirist and writer Gani Müjde returns to directing, satirizing where he feels at home, the ...

Uncover the secrets of Byzantine Fire, the Eastern Roman Empire's unconquerable secret weapon. This chemical enigma burned on ...

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 ...