Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Although she ruled solely for only five years, she left a lasting impact on the foreign policy and religious practices of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Irene’s significant policy was ending ...

David Lynch left an indelible mark in the film world, but a major part of what shaped his particular style of avant genius was his deep connection to music. Sound was integral to his lush ...

Filmmaker Bess Kargman provides an engaging look at a top music writer who has come to be a mogul but still acts like a song hustler. Not many non-performing contemporary songwriters are quite ...

During excavations north of the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, archaeologists uncovered a sprawling compound from the Byzantine era that contained 10 buildings, including a monastery, a winepress, and a ...

She became regent to Theophilus’ successor, his son Michael III ‘the Drunkard’, who, despite his dubious epithet, saw the abolition of iconoclasm and a revival of Byzantine military power. With ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...

Project Byzantium aims to create an “ad-hoc wireless mesh networking for the zombie apocalypse.” It’s a live Linux distribution that makes it easy to join a secure mesh network.