Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Byzantine Emperor who preferred books and who offered us a detailed account of Byzantine ...

A farmer’s 1860 discovery in Slovakia, the Monomachos Crown, may link to Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX. Featuring enameled ...

A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...

A Byzantine emperor who took the throne at age 21, Romanus II became mysteriously ill and died four years after his coronation.

The end of Constantine Palaiologos How he became Emperor of Byzantium – The Ottoman siege of Constantinople and its fall – What happened to Constantine – The legend of the "Marble King ...

In 1081, while the Byzantine Empire was mired in a succession crisis, Robert Guiscard, Norman Duke of Apulia-Calabria, sought to take advantage and launched his conquest. To maintain appearances, he ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

The history and characteristics of the unique surviving portrait of the last byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, confirming his family's connection to the historic monastery of the ...

Constantinople tends to become an onlooker, fuelling the suspicion that real Roman history remained in the west even after Rome’s fall, and making Constantinople and its emperors seem something other ...

Byzantine emperors introduced elaborate new ceremonies into court processionals, which comprised hundreds of pages in Emperor Constantine VII’s (r. 913-959) work De Ceremoniis.

The 1,000-year-old coin was found in Norway's Vestre Slidre mountains by a metal detectorist and is believed to be Byzantine.