Only a walk inside some of its churches will reveal the city’s stunning and colorful Byzantine mosaics! Ravenna, in ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit the beautiful Italian city Ravenna on their state visit to Italy in April.

The Siege of 1453 The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered impregnable, faced the formidable forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan ...

directly challenged the legitimacy of the upstart Justinian dynasty, generating a political intrigue that would shake the Byzantine royal courts through architecture. Gregory of Tours recounts how ...

Today’s government hopes its own such plan will succeed. By Joe Orovic Reporting from Split, Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

French Senator Claude Malhuret took aim at both Elon Musk and Donald Trump in a blistering speech, calling Musk a "ketamine jester" and Trump an "incendiary emperor." He accused Musk of betraying ...

Byzantine scholars meticulously copied and studied ancient texts, making sure the philosophy, literature and scientific understanding of the ancient world didn’t vanish. A prime example of their ...

Forced conversions: Emperor Justinian (527-565) enacted laws banning Jewish religious traditions, including Hebrew scripture readings. Jews were blamed for plagues, fires, and military defeats ...

Called the Plague of Justinian, it moved quickly, killing one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire, and worsened the conditions. For centuries, historians have been ...

Once the largest Christian church for over a thousand years, Hagia Sophia was built under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Over time, it has served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral, a Roman ...