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, says ...

A deep dive into the Byzantine Empire’s overlooked legacy explores how Greek civilisation shaped medieval Europe, preserved ancient knowledge, influenced the Renaissance and helped define modern Greek ...

Mehmed, who was just 21 when he conquered Istanbul, put the Ottoman Empire on the path of great transformation. Sultan Mehmed II was just 21 years old when he defeated the Byzantine Empire, ...

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During his reign, Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos was transfixed with a strange prophecy concerning the survival of his dynasty.

A routine sweep with a metal detector has led archaeologists to one of the most remarkable Byzantine-era discoveries made in ...

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The finding was made during an excavation at the Harbor of Eleutherios, one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Archaeologists discovered a pair of ...