When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of flying thrones, machines and automations, do you?

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

The Byzantine Empire is not always recognised as the crucial link that connected the classical world with modern Europe.

Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Feb. 8, 1404 – May 29, 1453), dubbed the last ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

After being assisted by the Jews in the Land of Israel to overcome the Persians in return for a promise of amnesty, Byzantine emperor Heraclius reneged. Hundreds of Jews were massacred ...

The Emperor in the Byzantine World is coherent and mostly quite readable, while still complying with the elaborate, meticulous, and sometime arcane requirements of academic publication. There were ...