The Byzantine Empire, which lasted for over a millennium, is one of history's most fascinating empires, not just for its longevity, but for its territorial evolution. Originating from the Eastern ...

Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.

One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to the Byzantine Empire. And researchers might have just found it.

He substituted the title “Imperator Caesar, Augustus” with “Basileus” in official documents, inscriptions, and coins. This shift reflected the empire’s contraction to regions predominantly inhabited ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short period between January 6, 1449 and May 29, 1453, dying in battle during the fall of Constantinople, when the capital was captured ...

Panselinos has long been considered one of the great Byzantine artists of the 14th century. His true identity, however, had long been lost.

Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a critical property of distributed systems that ensures their ability to function correctly and reach consensus even when some components fail or act maliciously.

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 Byzantine Empire came to an end in 1453 with the Ottoman conquest, but this did not end the problem of the two emperors; it merely replaced one claimant with another: Sultan Mehmed II proclaimed ...

The Byzantine Empire in 1180. Credit: Rowanwindwhistler / Wikimedia Commons So things stood while Andronicus marched toward Constantinople at the head of an army that swelled with dissidents; he did ...

Greek text in Byzantine painting of Reception by Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus of Princess Olga and her entourage, Credit: John Skylitzes/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Greek was the predominant ...