The Byzantine Empire faced numerous challenges, forcing many Greeks to employ genius tactics to defend the Empire.

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine ... Empire. In the 300s, the emperor Constantine I converted to Christianity, and a new Byzantine capital was founded in his name ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy ... from the city officially named New Rome but commonly called Constantinople (“Constantine’s city”) and founded originally ...

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

For the Byzantine Empire around 1400 ... it was no more than a minor state that extended barely beyond the walls of Constantinople - modern Istanbul. All its provinces had been lost, most of ...