Helen Gittos, a professor of medieval history at Oxford University ... Some suggested one or more of the graves could be the remains of a Byzantine king. The burial sites have been dated to ...

An 1,800-year-old shield dropped by a Roman soldier who likely died in battle What it tells us about the past: This helmet was discovered in pieces in an early-medieval ship burial at the ...

Medieval Byzantine literature and historiography, Byzantine rhetoric, urban space, collective memory, ekphrasis, manuscript culture, reception of antiquity in Byzantium, Komnenian culture and society, ...