The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

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

as well as evidence of habitation from the fourth to sixth centuries A.D., when the area was part of the Byzantine Empire. During a recent expedition, archaeologists excavated a medieval dwelling ...

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 ...

The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. When you purchase ... study author Helen Gittos, a medieval historian at the ...