The mystery of Greek fire continues to baffle historians millennia after its creation. Not only did the 7th-century weapon ...

Belisarius was the Byzantine military genius behind Justinian's conquests. His incredible victories were overshadowed by an ...

When the Christian Byzantine Empire faced obliteration at the hands of the Ottoman Turks around 1400, it turned to its past, found an event that proclaimed its unique and divinely ordained purpose ...

Archaeologists at Sutton Hoo, a 1,400-year-old boat burial in England, have discovered pieces of a broken bucket from the Byzantine Empire. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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 ...