Barbarian invasions in Greece during the Byzantine era were common with mostly Albanian tribes settling in the fertile plains ...

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

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 ...

During the Byzantine period, the city became a major religious center, attracting worshipers from across the Roman Empire. The remains of the “monk” at the time of the find. Credit: Israel Antiquities ...