Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval house that contained even older gold coins, which date to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great.

The gold coin appears to be from the Byzantine Empire in the early 13th century, but archaeologists think the find may date from more than 100 years later. (Image credit: Svetlana Velikova) ...

Anna Komnene, the 11th-century Byzantine princess who defied medieval norms to become one of the first female historians with the Alexiad.

Medieval English Coins Were Made With Melted Byzantine Silver Researchers have solved the mystery of the silver coin boom that took place around 660 C.E. Sonja Anderson - Daily Correspondent ...

Byzantine silver for the masses Twenty-nine of the coins in the study date back to 660 to 750 CE. They were minted in present-day England, France, and a cross-border cultural region in ...

About 200 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, western Europe started making thousands of silver coins, signaling a transformation in the early medieval economy. A new chemical analysis of ...

First, in the earlier coins from 660-750 AD, they found the silver had a chemical and isotope signature that matched silver from the Byzantine Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 3rd to early ...

The medieval Byzantine Empire had a strong early foundation and preserved it for over a millennium. Its capital, Constantinople, was the largest city in the world for most of the empire’s lifetime.

It’s been cited as a prime reason for the long reign of the Byzantine Empire, which lasted some thousand years after the western half of the Roman Empire crumbled. To be sure, the technology helped ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a medieval house that contained even older gold coins, which date to the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great.