"That he found a gold coin on a random trip in the mountains is completely surreal. This is unusual and exceptional. From ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting ... the Western world awoke and arose. Some kinder 20th-century scholars have offered modest corrections to the ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

in the 9th century B.C., is home to ruins from the Hellenistic (Greek empire built by Alexander the Great), Roman and Byzantine (eastern Roman empire) eras. Stroll through Ancient Thera and you'll ...

which was created there towards the end of the 9th Century. It was long influenced by Byzantine culture then was part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years before gaining its independence in the ...

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century, a new study finds.

California officials denied—and tried to hide—the first plague epidemic that reached U.S. shores Sarah Holzmann Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex ...