Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

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

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 ...

Byzantine and medieval art, architecture, ritual, materiality, cross-cultural exchange, icons and their modern receptions, and digital and public humanities. Evan Freeman studies art and ritual of the ...